CarPC or indash DVD?
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Spring Texas
CarPC or indash DVD?
Can't decide which way to go.... any opinions?
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-OMu4Hvx...&display=L#Tab
Looking for:
GPS, DVD playback, Mpeg, gaming, lots of storage, etc...
PC gives me everything I want, but i'm not sure of the boot time, overheating, hdd reliability (I plan on having a lot of bass).
Any opinions?
thanks...
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-OMu4Hvx...&display=L#Tab
Looking for:
GPS, DVD playback, Mpeg, gaming, lots of storage, etc...
PC gives me everything I want, but i'm not sure of the boot time, overheating, hdd reliability (I plan on having a lot of bass).
Any opinions?
thanks...
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Los Angeles Ca
do you really want me to reply to this? you know what my vote is. as far as your concerns. the only one that may be an issue is boot time. it's not that bad though. for it it was such a non issue that i haven't even tried to optimize it for ultra fast booting
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Melting Slicks
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From: Spring Texas
Originally Posted by scott_fx
do you really want me to reply to this? you know what my vote is. as far as your concerns. the only one that may be an issue is boot time. it's not that bad though. for it it was such a non issue that i haven't even tried to optimize it for ultra fast booting
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Los Angeles Ca
well they say to get a 2.5" laptop hd and mount it so the plates spin vertically.
i have a 3.5" regular desktop drive mounted horizontally and haven't had a problem. i'm using a relatively inexpensive hitatchi drive as well. you can pick up 300 gb refurbed hard drives for $50 if you look hard enough. what i'd do... if i was smart, i'd get one of those and image my harddrive in case anything happened. then if do have a failure (which isn't very comon) then you just throw the back up in there or get another drive and make another image and toss that in.
i have a 3.5" regular desktop drive mounted horizontally and haven't had a problem. i'm using a relatively inexpensive hitatchi drive as well. you can pick up 300 gb refurbed hard drives for $50 if you look hard enough. what i'd do... if i was smart, i'd get one of those and image my harddrive in case anything happened. then if do have a failure (which isn't very comon) then you just throw the back up in there or get another drive and make another image and toss that in.
