By SlingBladeChops MPC5000
Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:54 pm
Does the MPC take any standard hard drive. Im thinking about upgrading mines to a 1TB drive pretty soon.
clint246clint wrote:You see those stickies at the top of the forum?
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=105005
Always a good place to start.
YumYumRolex wrote:Thank you because he does that to me all the time,
MoreBuck$ wrote:YumYumRolex wrote:Thank you because he does that to me all the time,
He's saving you and everyone else wasted time. Clint does a good job keeping the forum moving on, otherwise the same questions get asked every time. Why don't you all try the new and improved search function, or google this forum.
JEEZ!!
SlingBladeChops MPC5000 wrote:Does the MPC take any standard hard drive. Im thinking about upgrading mines to a 1TB drive pretty soon.
advancedbreed wrote:Regarding transferring files from your PC to your MPC, I can provide a tip, but it will cost you like an extra $20 or so...
An IDE drive is much slower than a SATA drive. The technology is different. If you plug your MPC into your PC and transfer files, the speed of the file transfer will be sloooow... especially if you have a lot of files.
Your MPC drive needs to be formatted by your MPC, but there may be a way around this. There might be a better way to do this, but this is what I did to save time:
1) Put the new drive using the IDE to SATA adapter into the MPC and format the drive.
2) Take the drive out and plug it into your computer using a USB to SATA external adapter like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Con ... 765&sr=8-7
3) Copy all your samples to the drive. I had about 300 GB of samples and ran it overnight. IDE would take MUCH LONGER.
4) Put the drive back in your MPC.
Voila!
It's worth it in my opinion to do that to save yourself some time. From this point forward, if you just transfer some at a time, it's still less time than copying a large number of files.