[GenePoole]

I've been using a USB thumb drive with my Dension 500 for awhile now and it works great, but I'm running out of space on the 8G stick so I'm looking to USB harddrives but I'm having issues with them. I've tried three now (a 40G EIDE, 120G EIDE, and a 260G SATA) and I always get issues with skipping and lags and even dropouts of the whole MOST bus (apparently while the drive is re-indexing or something) I use the Gateway Indexer from Dension's site to index the drives before plugging them in, but I still get issues.

Is anyone using one with a real USB harddrive and if so, what size and type, and how is it formatted, etc.?

Thanks.

[q96]

For your info I used a big 32Go Stick and it worked fine with it (patriot XT xporter 32 Gb)

[Alexthegreat1967]

Hi Gene,

First of all Merry Christmas to you and all members in this excellent forum.
New User from Italy, I own a 330d Coupè 2007 and trying to get a dension 500 installed in my car.

In our European forum I read that this kind of problem may be caused by the Voltage on the usb connector, not enough to run the device connected to it.
Dension sells an extra cable that gives the proper voltage to the usb port and solves the problem.

Even if It's Christmas, later I'll post the link.
What type of Dension Gateway You installed? GW51MO2 or GW51Mbe?

That's my car setup.

[JayKay335i]

Maybe try being a baller and going for a solid state drive?

[GenePoole]

Originally Posted by Alexthegreat1967

Hi Gene,

First of all Merry Christmas to you and all members in this excellent forum.
New User from Italy, I own a 330d Coupè 2007 and trying to get a dension 500 installed in my car.

In our European forum I read that this kind of problem may be caused by the Voltage on the usb connector, not enough to run the device connected to it.
Dension sells an extra cable that gives the proper voltage to the usb port and solves the problem.

Even if It's Christmas, later I'll post the link.
What type of Dension Gateway You installed? GW51MO2 or GW51Mbe?

That's my car setup.

Thanks! That sounds like a definite possibility I hadn't considered. My drive enclosure has a socket and switch for external power or USB power. Maybe I'll try it with external power and see how it does.