Disklavier

Awesome!  How difficult was the operation?  I'll assume the existing drive is a SATA so the swap is simple once the unit is opened up.  Did you clone the original 80gb drive?  What utility did you use and did you partition it post installation of before.  Such great news to know that this unshackling can be done with relative ease.  The stock performance of the computer is shockingly bad.  Nice that it's merely an I/O issue.  Time to hit up
Amazon or Tiger and order one up.  

Thanks for the most useful post I've yet read on this already gem
Filled group!

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On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:43 PM, "kenruda" <ken@...> wrote:

> Last night I upgraded my Mark IV's 80 Gig Hard Drive to an 2.5" 120 Gig SSD (Solid State Drive).  My Disklavier now boots up in just under two minutes and is completely silent when booting. So I no longer hear the hard drive spin up and the chitter chatter of the hard drive seeking as it reads different tracks. The new hard drive is physically smaller than the original drive and so I ended up removing the old mounting hardware that held the original drive and installed the new drive like before but so that it did not completely cover any of the vent holes of the case unlike the original drive and mounting hardware did.  This will allow for far better heat dissipation than the original drive and so the system should run even cooler.  Plus the new SSD drive generates less heat and uses less power than the original drive to begin with.  I also see improved performance when searching and scrolling through songs with the Disklavier's hand held PRC-100.  Over all screens seem to be less sluggish and refresh more quickly.  I wish I had another Disklavier to compare with side by side. I have also expanded the extended partition and allocated more space to the volume where the media is stored-- so I went from about 19 gig free to about 59 gig free or about enough storage for at least 88 additional Smart PianoSoft Diskettes plus matching Audio CD with 74 minutes of audio each.  But since most CD's contain less than 74 minutes I may have room for a few more.  This is assuming that the Disklavier's software and database can accommodate that many.  Does anyone know if there is a limit? (I have 109 entries or albums/folders in my system now under the PianoSoft section.)
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