Kenwood HU with USB...External HD answers.

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

Ok guys, I have seen questions about this and had some of my own, and I never got a straight up answer. I found a thread that contains everything that you would really need to know about this topic. It is great, and I feel I needed to share it with the Head units section to clarify this up:

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1058993

Thanks to 02BlueSuperRoo over at NASIOC for his bravery in exploring this topic //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Cheers!

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[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

Bump for people needing this in research.

 

[Belunt 10+ year member]

I had heard a lot of poor reviews when this was first released, I've been interested in getting one myself and messing around with it though. I still gotta say though that the best HU setup I've had to date was the XXV-01D with the Kenwood Music Keg.

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

I'm getting this setup shortly. I'm bored with my current HU, as good as it is, and I want a 40 Gig HD hooked into it. I'll be deleting all my crappy compressed files and slamming no-loss or 320 bitrate music on the HD. Isn't the music keg roughly 200$ though?

A self-built and formatted External HD goes for 50$ //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

The 3 big Issues I see for first timers are powering the external disk drive, formatting the disk drive, and needing patience for the load of 16 gig or more. At this point, the system is limited by it's 1.0 USB capability. I'd imagine it would be much faster with USB 2.0

When Excelon releases a 6.5 Touchscreen with 2.0 USB and a larger power line for external HD's, That'll be my final unit.