Rock-a-droid

Posted Oct 7, 2010 15:04 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
In reply to: Rock-a-droid by jond
Parent article: Rock-a-droid

...or replace the drive in the H340 with an SSD?

Retrofitting the H340

Posted Oct 7, 2010 15:08 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

People have done such things. It's not a straightforward replacement; one must find connector adapters and such. But the H340 drive is doing great, and the battery (the fourth) is going strong too. On the other hand, the headphone connector is starting to fail (nice thing that the H340 has two of them!), and the switches are getting flaky. There comes a point where it starts to look like the device has really done its time.

Retrofitting the H340

Posted Oct 7, 2010 19:09 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

I have an iHP-120 that's on its second hard disk (upgraded to 30GB) and third battery.

I'm going to have to put a new battery in it soon, with the cold weather coming the current one has about 1/3rd of its original capacity.

The plastic over the screen has a few cracks, and I've had to re-solder a couple of the (surface-mount) switches over the years. But somehow it keeps on trucking, and it JustWorksSoWell(tm).