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blaupunkt with usb hard drive
This is a discussion on blaupunkt with usb hard drive within the ICE, Security and Insurance forums, part of the General Motoring Discussions category; has anyone tried a usb hard drive connected to their car? any problems with hard suspension? blaupunkt are offering a ...
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25-11-2006, 21:38
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| blaupunkt with usb hard drive has anyone tried a usb hard drive connected to their car? any problems with hard suspension? blaupunkt are offering a mp3 head unit and 80gb hard drive for £230 and i'm tempted!! adam |
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25-11-2006, 21:46
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive I use an Iriver 20GB hard drive mp3 connected to the Skoda Head unit and it's never skipped or crashed once. I'd imagine the had drive they use will be one designed for mobility and be pretty hardwearing. You can get a normal 80GB harddrive for about £20 so there must be some reason why this costs £230.
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive the £230 includes the head unit which is why i thought it sounded ok, but should any usb hard drive work? adam |
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive Yes, dont see why not.
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive I have a Kenwood 534UG (or something like that number) head unit and thats got an 80gb hard drive on it with 7 gig of music (about 2500 tracks) and its ok. It can be quite slow in initial loading but remove all folders, and have the tracks in the root (E:/ for example) to save time indexing the files, this cuts the time abit. Im still trying to get mine to work to a point where Im happy enough with it, but at the moment it takes about 2 mins to initally load up which is a bit annoying, as I spent £150 notes on the head unit and £70 on a hard drive for this to work!  I think the best alternative Ive seen is the DVD playing head units which play MP3 DVD's at about £600~£700, which I should of went for instead 
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive i think the time loading up would rule it out for me. my journey home from work takes about 5-10 mins so a good portion of my journey would be waiting for my music to load up. i think i'll go down the ipod route as these seem to work instantly! cheers guys adam |
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive Quote:
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive how did you cut the time down and is that 15-20 secs for every time you make a selection? adam |
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| Re: blaupunkt with usb hard drive Quote:
Radio then knows the location of tracks (via File Alocation Table - FAT) Skip tracks and wait about half a second between tracks. Problem is I dropped my hard drive 5 foot onto a concrete floor this morning so I will have to reload my tracks If you are going to go down the hard drive route then get a iPod case or something so that it absorbs impacts when carrying.
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