Greetings!

Well, I have finished uploading my CDs to the empeg, and I have almost filled it. I now have about 9GB to spare.

Some random thoughts on the drives:

1) The IBM 48GBs seem louder. Noticably so. But it is not loud enough to be of any problem in a listening environment.

2) The drives seem to run at about the same temperature, or maybe a little hotter. I have not noticed any significant problems from that. As a comparison, 2 IBM 20s gave me a temperature of around 26-30C. The 2 48s are about 33C. Your milage may vary, and the temperatures are based on the displayserver readings as running in my cube at work.

3) I had only one sync problem in total. This was a stage 10 error, and I attribute it to load on my computer as opposed to the empeg. I did another sync and everything was fine. No other sync problems at all.

4) Database load time is noticable at startup. I guess that is to be expected... :)

5) I hope this becomes an option at Rio / empeg as the high end disk configuration soon. Sourcing may still be an issue, but the drives are becoming more common.

6) Physically, the drives are a little higher (12.5mm) than the 20s that were originally installed (9.5mm), but well within the range of the player.

7) I have not noticed any problems with the spindle requiring washers.

If I notice any problems, I will post them here. Thanks!

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

Yeah Mike!

Any hope of getting an updated builder image soon? I have a 48G on the way to add to my shiny new RioCar.*

As usual, pints on me when I get there in October.

*For those who don't know the story, Mk.II #39 was sent on a personal mission to find Amelia Earhart by my friends at American Airlines... I just got a RioCar to replace it.

-Zandr
Mk.I #0150 10GB
RioCar #010101243 10GB (96GB here I come...)

Greetings!

As an update, I have not had any problems since. I resynced manually, and I have not had any more problems. Today, I verified the uploaded files with my local list, and there were only a few albums that were off - all of them from CDRs that had errors in them. I am recopying them to local disk and I will try a sync in a few minutes. It might have just been bad source files. I hope...

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

Greetings!

The videk cables arrived yesterday. I had already ordered them before I read your post. You were not kidding! They are SHORT!. Time for me to re-learn metric measurements again. Maybe I can ask NASA for help...

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

So I decided to do the upgrade as well (keeping my original 12GB disk and adding a 48GB disk). The best price I found was with Outpost.com (around $430), which claimed 3-5 day availability, vs. much longer lead times elsewhere.

Guess what arrived in today's e-mail?

Dear DAN :

Thank you for your order! We apologize but the item(s) you
ordered is currently out of stock and we are unable to provide a
definite ship date at this time. However, we continually receive
new merchandise in our warehouse and we hope to fulfill your
order within the next thirty days or sooner if possible.

Brilliant, huh?

Greetings!

I got mine from Harddrive.com, and they had them available then. No delay. Granted, they were $30-40 more than what you found listed, but they were in stock.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

Harddrive.com listed "6-13 day availability" whereas Outpost.com said "3-5 day availability". Fool that I was, I believed them.

Hi.

You could just go ahead and cancel that order, If they said 3-5 day availability, and now change this to "30 days, may be less", this obviously makes your decision to order the disk from them invalid. I am not sure about american laws about this, but according to german law, you can just quit a contract (each order is a contract), if your contractor changes the conditions to your disadvantage.
However, I would only cancel that order after confirming that harddrive.com really has them available within 6-13 days.

cu,
sven

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)

Greetings!

Uh, maybe I have it cached or something, but I have www.harddrive.com having it available for same day shipping at $449... This is going to the actual site, not using outpost or anything like that.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

Harddrive.com turns out to be in Texas, as am I, so I'd also be paying them state sales tax in addition to the premium they charge over Outpost.com. Also interesting, Outpost.com has raised their price by $10 relative to yesterday but is still listing "5-7 day availability". I called them on the phone about this, and it means, roughly, that they've ordered the equipment and the vendor (IBM) isn't promising them a ship date, but the vendor typically come through in under a week.

If I want, I can back out of the contract, but I'm going to give them another week to see if they're right. If I don't have the hard drive in hand next week, then I suck it up and pay the extra bucks to HardDrive.com.

*sigh*