Have you guys at EMPEG thought about the concept of an external (add on) hard drive box? something the size/shape of a small car CD changer perhaps?

Why not fill up the current unit to its maximum first before worrying about more storage.

This would hopefully be the next logical progression since the EMPEG guys built a mchine with more HD capacity than physical space. My main concern with this sort of accessory is that the IDE bus has a reasonably sort distance limitation. It's probably not possible to push the IDE channels across a lengthy cable (which would be required with a boot mounted external box).

Glenn

There's no way we could have an external IDE bus - the EMC problems would be huge (apart from anything else). An interesting possibility would be using the serial port, as at 230,400bps you can stream even 160kbit MP3s over serial...

USB isn't an option as, to plug into a PC, the empeg has to be a USB slave, and slaves can't talk to each other ;)

Hugo