Yeah, I know that stuff.

LOL

Anyways, I'm looking at low profile SDHC adapters right now. Red and black would be preferred, so it matches the interior.

SDHC so I can upgrade, and I'd prefer NON MICRO because the SD cards are cheaper, and have the larger sizes first.

Let me change the title to this thread... I think I can do that as a premier member right?

 

If you have a bump that destroys the hard drive, you prolly arnt going to be worrying about that hdd that cost about 100 bucks. your prolly going to have much more damage to the car itself, you don't need solid state.

 

^^^

agree. my carpc isnt hooked up now, but i had it in for two years or something over some rough road and giant potholes here in the dc area without any hiccups.

i would really go with a 2.5" external drive. that $199 1tb you listed is 2.5", so very portable, and you won't need any external power. just one usb wire to it. only problem is that for fat32, you'll have to partition the 1tb drive like 30 times or something like that.

 

UPDATE, I posted above everyone, after finding some more info, I'm going for a few thumb drives, or a SD card reader so I can swap SD cards.

 

A Solid State Disk is not really necessary just because you are in a car. I have an iPod in my car all the time and it has yet to fail on me, but that is not solid state. Don't get me wrong. There is a very good chance that you will end up killing a lot of your blocks, but if it's all music that's not really important. You can just reload what's lost, but for a CarPC it is absolutely necessary that you use a SSD for the operating system and important programs. The media should be on a SATA preferably with swap bay.

If you don't have solid state for the operating system, it is very likely that you will corrupt an important file that will possibly require a full reinstall/reformat. This takes lots of time.