Topic: JB3 w/ 60GB HD

[quantegy]

Has anyone upgraded their JB3 to 60GB? I'm wondering if it has any effects on recording? I wouldnt think so but thought I would ask anyway. I really want to do this.

thanks!

Adam

[caymanreview]

are you upgrading it yourself? ive heard this is pretty tricky business...

[quantegy]

yeah. There are pretty detailed instructions out there. I hear its easy you just have to be very careful with the screen. People are doing it all time now so I figure I can probably manage. Just don't want to compromise my recording.

[John R]

let us know how it goes, take MANY progress pics.

jr

[Ed.]

i do believe there are already pics up at nomadness.net  <-- check it out, lots of good info for the nomads

ed

[BobW]

searh on  "mod" and "60 GB" both returned nada.
Send pics

[John R]

searh on  "mod" and "60 GB" both returned nada.
Send pics

same.  only 60 gig that showed, was another model type

[quantegy]

Here are the instructions I will use but I dont see any pics.

http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=22

I will take some pics anyway.

Also, I think Im going to put in a Fujitsu 80GB drive with an 8MB buffer. Found it pretty cheap over at newegg. Wondering if that larger buffer will help with reliability while recording but I dont know much about this stuff nor do I have any current problems, any thoughts?

adam

[2speedy]

i would think that the large buffer would help out, wouldnt see any reason it wouldnt.

this wouldnt clash with anything with the jb3 would it? like firmware or anything? haveing that different HD in there with different buffers and such?

[quantegy]

well, Ive been talking to at least two guys who have it installed, although one is in a Zen, and they have no problems. The guy with it in the JB3 even thinks the larger buffer has increased his battery life. I think I'm going to give it a shot. Prob take me a few weeks to get the money, oder it, and install it but I will let eveyone know the results.

[todd e]

i'm am in-line to try this too, just not feeling it yet, as the unit hasn't even arrived.  +T for new toys.

[caymanreview]

good luck!

[jerryfreak]

I had a 60gb toshiba drive in my jb3 for over a year, no difference in performance vs the original 20gb.

one person mentioned that he wasted a fujitsu with 8mb buffer. I doubt the nomad would take advantage of the disk buffering anyway, since it has its own buffer memory thats like 8mb or 16 mb anyway.

its a pretty easy swap, the only tricky part are the little metal spacers that go under the hard drive screws. pretty easy to forget to put those back in...

[mattb]

well, Ive been talking to at least two guys who have it installed, although one is in a Zen, and they have no problems. The guy with it in the JB3 even thinks the larger buffer has increased his battery life. I think I'm going to give it a shot. Prob take me a few weeks to get the money, oder it, and install it but I will let eveyone know the results.

That was me. It wasn't very hard, and I'm getting great battery life, but maybe I would be with the 20 Gig too. I didn't take measurments beforehand. I was excited to upgrade.

Just be careful with the screen, follow the directions, and don't loose the little washers that can go flying when you take it apart (open carefully over a surface that won't bounce the washers if they fall). The hardest part was getting those washers in place to put it back together. Three hands would be better I also heard of someone tacking them in place with super glue.

[sickrick43]

Buffering internal to a hard disk drive operates independantly of the device it's connected to.  I doubt the JB3 is streaming data fast enough to fill the buffer at it's built in transfer rate anyway.

Rick
MCSE/CNE

[mgleason007]

Make sure you don't get a 7200 rpm drive.  Battery life?  What's that?