hey guys.

I get my car in a weeks time and i want to get a USB flash drive to store my music in the glove box. i know there is ipod connectivity, but i dont have an ipod yet, nor do i want one. specially with the whole one itunes for one ipod thing, it means i cant go to my friends houses and just leech music freely. a usb is just unplug, computer, music, back into car. yay!

so i just want to find out, what are the largest USB drives you guys have tested in your cars? i remember reading back a while that someone was using an 8gb, but i would be keen to get like a 32gb or something....i don't really have much more music than that.

on another note, anyone tried a USB (self) powered external HDD?

cheers!

 

i am using a 16gb usb, works fine

 

I have a 500 gb and i work great.

 

How do you fit yourself in the slot though. Seems like that would hurt.

 

I bet it hurts.....

 

Haha ...... sorry typo.

 

500gb flash drive?

I am now using a 32gb working fine.

 

I've seen 32 GB plugged in without any problems as well.

 

so you guys use some converter to connect USB drive in glove box?

 

2010 spec. comes with 3 setups for the glovebox.
USB, iPod & AUX (3.5mm Jack)

I’m using a 16GB with seamless operation, when I run short on memory, I’ll try something bigger.

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I was going to buy a 64 or 128gb, but at those sizes at the moment the $/GB just isn't worth it. Better off buying multiples of smaller ones. 32gb should be fine for now, it's filling up though :P

 

Im using a 320GB Portable Hard Drive at the moment.

 

REALLY? I tried this too but it didn't work.

USB powered, or self powered? FAT32 or NTFS?

 

I upgraded to 1tb now but I have partitioned it off into three fat32 sections. Works great too bad I can watch movies on the hdd.

 

hmm wtf, I tried to plug in a USB drive the other day with some songs and it wouldn't work... Is there a particular filesystem we need? Fat32 or NTFS?

 

Out of interest, what month/year did they start building the cars that come with the media interface with the usb in the glovebox?

I am assuming all the cars built in 2008 did not include it and it was included at some point on cars built in 2009?

 

Your hdd has to be fat32 to work. I used swissknife to formate my hdd to fat32 it works great and it's free.

 

I have a 32GB formatted FAT32 with about 17GB used (around 3600 songs) and it only reads about 900 of them.

Now for the odd part. It reads 900 songs and the last song it reads is the actual last song on the drive.