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02-08-2013, 10:09 AM | #1 |
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Upgraded stock hard drive
I got a hold of a 80gb 7200 rpm pata drive from work yesterday. Knowing that our stock hard drive is 4200 rpm, I figured this would be worth upgrading.
Here is what I've observed so far: Initial navigation boot-up: about the same POI search: significantly faster Route calculation: moderately faster Alt. route calculation: slightly faster I just installed it last night, so I'll report back if I discover any more performance changes. p.s. the drive also is more energy efficient and should run cooler than the oem drive.
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02-08-2013, 10:52 AM | #3 |
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It's very easy to remove and it's located under the dvd-rom drive.
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02-08-2013, 10:55 AM | #4 |
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You might want to hold off on that. The current disk in there is designed not to skip from bumps. But if you do proceed make sure you clone your old drive to the new. That way it will be plug in play.
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02-08-2013, 11:19 AM | #6 | |
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I can always put the stock drive back in if there are issues down the road.
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02-08-2013, 11:22 AM | #7 | |
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I would also advise against using a "normal" hard drive in your car.. a few bumps on the road will be enough to permanently crash the heads into the spinning disk. The you will be stuck with a failed disk. Some disks get damaged when they're not spinning just getting knocked over, imagine in a car Your best bet is to get a PATA SSD drive, even then you want a robust ssd drive. 128G will fetch a hefty price, 64G a little less. So the second best bet is to get a larger rugged drive that was meant to be used in a car. So don't throw away your old drive, you will probably need to put it back soon |
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02-08-2013, 02:01 PM | #8 |
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A SSD hard drive would be by far the best option as has already been said. Not sure it'd need to be "robust". How ever you're still looking at a hefty price tag just to see a minimal increase in speed :/
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02-08-2013, 02:16 PM | #9 |
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Guys, this drive was free. If it crashes... that's fine, I'll put the old one back in.
The point of this thread was to show that a faster hard drive will increase the performance on the nav system when doing certain tasks.
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02-08-2013, 02:17 PM | #10 |
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I would go robust because here in "the great white north" temperatures vary from one extreme to an another. I would want to be sure the components could handle such temp variations.
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02-08-2013, 04:12 PM | #11 | |
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I have a spare SSD.. What SATA to PATA should I use? |
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02-08-2013, 04:37 PM | #12 | |
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As for the SATA/PATA, I don't know, I haven't ventured into this kind of swap. |
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02-08-2013, 05:24 PM | #14 |
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The problem with those adapters is that all need external power.
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02-08-2013, 10:04 PM | #16 |
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Regarding the PATA SSD, something like this perhaps?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KingSpec-2-5...item4605d17bf1 or even more compact still: http://www.ebay.com/itm/KINGSPEC-128...item43b1edf936 Better operating temps: http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/myd...-2.5-inch-ssd/
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02-09-2013, 05:23 AM | #17 |
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If a SSD will break chances are the standard hard drive in the car originally wouldn't hold up either!!
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02-09-2013, 03:12 PM | #18 | |
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