MPC 4000 Harddrive Question

I don't have an MPC 4000 but I would like to get one. My question is: If I wanted to replace the hard drive in the MPC 4000 with a much bigger one (250GB or more), would any "off the shelf" 7200 rpm IDE computer hard drive work? And will the MPC's OS recognize it where it could be used to full capacity after formatting it?

Thanks.

i wanna kno aswel

i think 120gb is the max. I recommend 80gb per drive. you could install 2x 80gb via ide

Wow 120 GB is a lot to play with!!!! I alsoike the idea of have two drives as oppose to one. I didn't even know you can have more than one harddrive installed in the MPC 4000. That's just like a computer.

Thanks for the helpful info ikke.

Just one other question. If you can install two 80GB hard drives, wouldn't that be 160 GBs total? But the OS will only recognize 120GB of that 160GB?

kvmoore wrote:Just one other question. If you can install two 80GB hard drives, wouldn't that be 160 GBs total? But the OS will only recognize 120GB of that 160GB?

i'm not sure here but i thought the 120gb recognizeable limit was only specific to one or each drive. again, i don't know and am interested in knowing this as well.

peace

actuel

128's the max cause the architecture can't recognize anything more than that. so even if you threw in a 300gb hd, you'd only get 120gb's out of it.

descry wrote:128's the max cause the architecture can't recognize anything more than that. so even if you threw in a 300gb hd, you'd only get 120gb's out of it.

120G is the max because it uses FAT32 for its file system. 120G is the limit for FAT32.

If you took a 250G harddrive and popped it into your computer and Partioned it
2 120G FAT32 partitions, most likely they would be both be recognized. But it is also
possible that it wouldn't. I would make sure the harddrive is returnable and the place
has 120G to exchange for

I want a 1pedabite hard drive
I could save the world with it

Hopefully, I'll still be able to get hard drives 120GB or smaller (having two is always better than having one.) by the time I can finally afford an MPC 4000!!! Hard drives are constantly getting bigger and bidder.

kvmoore wrote:(having two is always better than having one.)

y?

Originally posted by kvmoore:
(having two is always better than having one.)
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y?

Why? Well we all know you should back up your data to CD or PC but lets face it, some people (like me for instance) don't back up their 25%-50% complete projects. And there can be many of those. Its still good to know that if one of your hard drives crash on your MPC4000, you wouldn't lose "EVERYTHING" you did. If you only had one huge hard drive to rely on and it crashes, you'd be screwed if your data isn't backed up. It happened to me on my computer. I lost some Cubase beats. Good beats!!! Gone forever!!!

Another good reason to have two hard drives is that you can use one as your primary drive that you work from and only use the other to back up your data. Just a thought.

You would have to give up your cd drive, in order to have two internal hard drive. i use a super slim laptop external usb drive

Don't forget you can always use an external SCSI drive as well.

kvmoore wrote:

Originally posted by kvmoore:
(having two is always better than having one.)
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y?

Why? Well we all know you should back up your data to CD or PC but lets face it, some people (like me for instance) don't back up their 25%-50% complete projects. And there can be many of those. Its still good to know that if one of your hard drives crash on your MPC4000, you wouldn't lose "EVERYTHING" you did. If you only had one huge hard drive to rely on and it crashes, you'd be screwed if your data isn't backed up. It happened to me on my computer. I lost some Cubase beats. Good beats!!! Gone forever!!!

Another good reason to have two hard drives is that you can use one as your primary drive that you work from and only use the other to back up your data. Just a thought.

but wouldent both hard disks empy out after the mpc is switched off or crashes?

feline1 wrote:Don't forget you can always use an external SCSI drive as well.

yeh iam guessing thats the best option.
an external hard disk which u can take away from the mpc.