Maximum hard drive size?

I know it's true man. I found out about 5 minutes into messing with my 4000 for the first time-that's why I laughed-cause it's so easy to stop the hard drive noise by just pushing a button, while some of these cats were advising on buying another hard drive with less noise.

oh ok Yeah some people are just plain stupid

to respond to the original question: Akai advices to NOT exceed the 112GB limit. 112Gb is the max for a FAT32 drive.
If you want more capacity, connect a bigger drive to the front usb port

MPC 4 ME wrote:to respond to the original question: Akai advices to NOT exceed the 112GB limit. 112Gb is the max for a FAT32 drive.
If you want more capacity, connect a bigger drive to the front usb port

I thought technically Akai only has indicated that a 60G and 80G harddrive is supported.
At least acording to their webpage. Have they said so otherwise?

Right now they only indicate 1 specific harddrive, though in the past they have also listed
some other 60G hard drives. Wayback Machine would have that info stored, I guess:
http://www.akaipro.com/mpc4000

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Scroll to the bottom of this page:
The following hard drives have been tested and approved for use in the MPC4000 Plus:

Manufacturer


Model Name


Model Number


Capacity

Seagate


Baracuda


ST3802110A


80GB

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But I bet if you contacted Akai, their official response right now would be to upgrade
to the MPC 5000

MPC 4 ME wrote:to respond to the original question: Akai advices to NOT exceed the 112GB limit. 112Gb is the max for a FAT32 drive.
If you want more capacity, connect a bigger drive to the front usb port

Where do you get that limit from? The FAT32 limit is at 8TB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32). There has been several limits on PC's during the years, but that's because of their BIOS's and limitations and bugs in Windows.

MPC 4 ME wrote:oh ok Yeah some people are just plain stupid

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Hey now...calling them stupid is a little harsh How bout...'uninformed hahaa:)

Well, I saw that setting the first day I got mine, but the hard drive is probably 4-5 years old in mine...and well...I don't want my computer to enter standby if I'm not planning to use it the next ten minutes. I made it dead quiet all the time instead by putting it in another room.

Some of us long-time MPC4000 users moaned at Akai Unprofessional Inc for about THREE YEARS before they included that "No Spin" button!

And who wants to bet that the idiots who can't even find it are the same twits who at the time would yap on at us to "stop moaning" and "go make some beats"?

OK, everything has arrived and everything is installed.

Found used memory that looked exactly like the one that's supposed to work in MPC-4000. $20 for 512 MB RAM and it works perfect.

Replaced the fan with the fan meantioned in another thread here. The difference is HUGE. This one is really, really quiet. Every MPC-4000 should do that. I check regularly if it's blowing, and yes, indeed it is.

As you all know I also replaced the hard drive. I thought I ordered a 120GB laptop drive, but it was 160GB laptop drive (Western Digital). It is definitely quieter than the one before, but to be honest the fan used to make most of the noise. Now it is the harddrive. I think it sounds a bit more than it should, but that's because the MPC is a a huge resonating box. Still, my MPC is very quiet now and the option "NO SPIN" is still there.

About hard drive sizes...yes, there is a limit. My 160GB drive is formatted as 127GB, so anything bigger than 160GB is useless. 120GB (=112GB formatted) is the way to go if you want to use the whole drive.

Could you post which fan you bought and where you bought it from, and if the installation was easy.
cheers
geoff

I bought this fan:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0167431353

Installation was pretty easy. The most complicated thing is to get inside the MPC, but I'm already getting used to it.

cool I will order one of these today, mines started to rattle and its getting annoying.
thanks for the help
geoff

Cool I have ordered one,
It terms of installation does it have instructions with the fan that can be applied to installing it in the mpc?

Is it really obvious how to do it?

Any pointers appreciated.
cheers
geoff

There are no instructions, but I really don't think you need any. I have serviced quite a few synths the last five years, but replacing the fan was actually easier than replacing the hard drive. If you have any questions when you receive it, just post them here and I'll try to answer them.

The only real things you need to be aware of when conencting the fan:

- you need to plug it in to the right place on the power supply board.
Obviously, you can see where the old one was plugged in, and plug the new one into the same place:
possibly complications:
1. the connectors on the new one don't have the same number of pins as on the old one
2. you dunno which was round the connector should go (polarity wise)

If decide to leave the mains power on so that you can readily see if the fan starts spinning (i.e. you've got it conencted right)
don't be like me, and ACCIDENTLY BRUSH YOUR HAND AGAINST THE POWER SUPPLY AND GET A 240V SHOCK!

In fact, just don't be like me, full stop: disconnect from mains before installing the fan.
(AND still BE CAREFUL cos there are BIG CAPACITORS on the power supply board which STORE ELECTRIC CHARGE
and can still DISCHARGE IT INTO *YOU* even when the MPC4000 is turned off)