By the rock
Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:26 pm
Just my heads up if anyone is interested as I've seen a few posts on this shit...I recently decided to fit a hdd to the 2500. The model I bought was: Samsung HM160HC 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive IDE 5400rpm. It works perfectly. It needs to be an IDE not SATA hard drive. Mine cost £40 new from ebay. Installing was a two minute job but I first hooked it to my PC and initialised it through windows then formatted it.
Once in the MPC I needed to get the 1.24 os installed over my 1.23 os (the 1.23 won't recognise the full capacity of 160gb). I then reformatted it inside the MPC. You should have a cage already inside the MPC for attaching the drive, you will need a couple of small screws though possibly.
Also if you are looking at upgrading the RAM (this is pretty much essential) there is no need to go for the akai stuff, I went with a kingston stick and it works fine.
I know this stuff has been covered but I hope this helps someone.
Peace
Once in the MPC I needed to get the 1.24 os installed over my 1.23 os (the 1.23 won't recognise the full capacity of 160gb). I then reformatted it inside the MPC. You should have a cage already inside the MPC for attaching the drive, you will need a couple of small screws though possibly.
Also if you are looking at upgrading the RAM (this is pretty much essential) there is no need to go for the akai stuff, I went with a kingston stick and it works fine.
I know this stuff has been covered but I hope this helps someone.
Peace
MPC2000 Classic, MPC2500 JJOS Free, MPC500, SP12, SP1200, S950, Yamaha 01V, Technics 1200's, Vinyl!
