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01-08-2009, 03:02 PM | #1 |
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Hard Drive Location for 09 iDrive
Does anyone have access to drawings or schematics showing the location of the hard drive for the new iDrive? I'm interested in swapping out my drive to add more music storage space.
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Not worth the effort IMO. Just get a large USB flash drive and call it a day. Take it out and plug it into your computer to reload stuff. Much easier than trying to do USB transfers or CD-HDD transfers in the car. Plus if you do CD-HDD transfers it gets converted to 128 WMA which pretty much sucks in terms of sound quality.
I have a 32GB OCZ drive and I'm fine with that. Fits right in the USB port under the armrest with no problems. 64GB drives are on the market but still very expensive. Do you really need 500GB of stuff at your fingertips in a car?
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How did you take off the trim around the unit? Just pry from the bottom or sides?
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The trim is removed using that plastic tool shown to pry that cover. |
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Be aware that it takes several minutes (after starting the car each time) for the iDrive to parse all your music's metadata (ID3 tags) before it shows up for selection/playing. This delay is annoying, I now only use that big drive for long trips. I keep intending on investigating it further to see if I can do something to improve the startup, but haven't gotten around to it. This isn't an issue with the iPhone or flash drive incidentally. You may ask, why on earth would you need that much music? It isn't an incredible amount of music... it is just that I tend to encode my music at a high bit-rate, and those files can get large (but sounds better imho). |
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My library (which includes bits of my kids' & wife's music) has about 3500 items, mostly music, some audio books in there too. Most are 256 VBR. Runs a bit over 20g. Not an obscene amount. But I'm old and have had lots of time to collect it. All legal incidentally. |
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