Disklavier

The PRC-100 isn't polling the drive contents, per se.  It is running database queries...and the database is file based.  So, the queries are much faster.  Same net result.

To check your drive size from either the PRC-100 or DKVBrowser, you have to do some operation which changes your available space...so, copy a song, or something along those lines.  DKVBrowser will display the total space left down in the status bar, while the PRC-100 will pop up a dialog after the operation.

-Kevin


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 From: "vincent.joshua.lin@..." <vincent.joshua.lin@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2014 11:23 PM
Subject: [disklavier] SSD Boot Times
 


  
After fixing my PRC-100 CF card issue, I went ahead and performed an SSD swap a couple nights ago.

I purchased a 120GB Samsung 840 EVO.  Total cost before tax on the expansion was roughly about $100 - ($89 for the drive, another $10 for the SATA-to-IDE board and the 2.5 to 3.5 inch bracket adapter).

I timed the total boot before the swap at about 3 minutes - that is the time from pushing the power supply to a solid light (the second solid light).

After installing the drive, the boot time was about 2 minutes 30 seconds.  I was a little disappointed it wasn't faster.  The menu on the PRC-100 does seem a lot snappier - so it's clear it polls the drive's contents real-time.

FIRST QUESTION: I'm wondering if anyone else on the group is experiencing significantly better times on boot up - and if it is the result of a faster drive (than my SSD) in general.  What SSD drives are other people using?

SECOND QUESTION: Does anyone know how to check the drive size from either the PRC-100 or from DKVBrowser?

As an aside, the install went fairly smooth.  Had a bit of a hang-up when I cloned the drive (used a tuxboot Live USB Clonezilla to clone the drive, then a tuxboot Live USB Gparted to enlarge the data partition to fill the rest of the drive)...both free tools available online.  The problem occurred when I was trying to expand the data partition.  Couldn't get Gparted to expand the filesystem to fill the new partition size - ended up having to go into the command line to force it to expand.   It looks like it took - and the Disklavier is working fine.  I'm glad I have a back-up now of my original drive.  Anyone else experience the same issue when trying to expand the data partition?

- Vincent