External Hard Drive

weakkneed · #1 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 12:12 PM

Would it be possible to hack the proprietary usb connector to enable an external hard drive for a car or otherwise?

shellguy · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 02:10 PM

What are you trying to do with an external hdd? There are flash cards up to what 4gb now..

Will G.

weakkneed · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 03:43 PM

A large collection of movies, maps, music in one place. No switching during an all day drive.

rawr · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 04:51 PM

it's called a laptop...

weakkneed · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:13 PM

A 1.8 or 2.5 external is small enough to slip in a pocket or mount under a dash. Possibly over a hundred gig. Power aux from car. Simple usb connector. Car mount for Titan. Bluetooth gps. Sorry if my question isn't worth a serious reply. Laptop can be a pain in the butt. Sercurity risk while traveling. Left in car while backpacking and hiking. Heat over 130 degrees. Don't have a umpc which would be perfect. ($1800 or $1000, too expensive) Umpc not practical on non-gsm network so you can't switch phone. Data costs anyone. Movies ,music, gps, maps, data, programs, pictures, camcorder video (all storage hogs.) I thought you guys like to stretch the limit.

shellguy · #6 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 10:11 PM

From what i know this is not possable, I may be wrong but not currently..

Will

**nuguy** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 10:40 PM

I'm not sure if it works or not, but I have heard of blutooth enabled hard drives...

weakkneed · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 02:06 AM

Thanks nuguy, that is interesting. Will the Mogul take the gps and harddrive bluetooth at the same time?

stevland · #9 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 08:19 AM

This is an interesting question.

Perhaps not everyone on the forum thinks that it is a worthy endeavor-- hooking up an external HDD to the Titan In fact, I don't see myself doing it. However, I am driven to try everything possible with this little sucker so that I know the true capabilities of my device.

All it would take to answer your question is to pop a hard drive into one of the external enclosures that I have lying around here. Then, hook up the external HDD's USB cable to an adapter in order to step down to mini-USB. Plug it into the Titan and see if the Titan recognizes it.

I just installed USBModem tonight-- even though I'm very unlikely to ever need it. The point is: one day I may.

If no one beats me to it, I may just try this in the next coupl'a few dayz...

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weakkneed · #10 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 01:00 AM

Thank you stevland.

I read somewhere else that the proprietary usb operates as a regular mini-usb connector. Is this true?
Does it just recognize the audio device and change digitally?

I'll be looking forward to hearing how your experiment went.

Thanks again