Hard Drive Upgrade?

[v1o]

I just have a quick question. what is the largest size hdd that can be recognized by the firmware that ships with HDD120?

[ECA]

Good question...
Think it will take some discussion with Philips..
and they MAY not answer it, just to make you BUY the upgrades.

Many companies will even LIE to you, as the difference between most of there line of products is 1 minor THING, which they sell as many versions.

And another consideration:
The old computers, and even the NEW ones have a MAX drive size SEEN, by hardware AND software. The old trick was to take a LARGE drive and partition it SMALLER, and the Software SEE's 2,3,4 drives depending on how many partitions.

Another consideration:
EVEN windows has 1 Major problem. It will only SEE, so many files in a directory.
The Ipod Shuffle, will only SEE, 128 music files... SOME only 1000...

ANOTHER consideration:
file format...With the OLD 8.3 format...NO name could be MORe then 8 letter and an Extention...12345678.123...COUNTING the Alpha and numbers, you can get 36tothe 8th power...thats ANY Alpha/numeric for EACh place 8 times. Its ALOT, but how many NAMES and title can be done that dont over lap(same NAMES). How many classical files will be named 'INTERLUDE'...which is to long to begin with.
We cant count the Extention as it will probably ALWAYS be the same. MPS, ACC, a4u, whatever.

Another consideration:
file structure:
directories, can only be so DEEP... Even windows has problems with files past 200 levels deep ...C:\this\that\the\other\deeper\file\is\some\plac e\down\here\someplace\........
Even a few virus MAKE this happen to CRASH the system.
the structure on ANY of these devices is VERY, VERY basic...

Ok, the bad part...I dont think they will answer most of these questions.
IMHO, I really dont think you want to store your WHOLE music collection on this device. Anything more then 6-12 hours, is ALOT. And worse case it fails you will loose all of this data unless you have them BACKED UP...copy the data to a CD/DVD, with the playlists.