Has anyone managed to replace their Receptor 1 hard drive with a SSD? My drive seems to be becoming error-prone and I don't even want to THINK about what it would cost to upgrade to a Receptor 2 Pro with SSD.
Thanks for any help.
Solid State drive for Receptor 1
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- KVRer
- 7 posts since 5 May, 2008
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- KVRist
- 411 posts since 25 Apr, 2007 from Northern CA
As a preliminary test, I replaced the IDE drive in my Receptor 1 with a SATA drive...and simply installed Linux (KUbuntu I think). It was very interesting to simply turn my Receptor into a PC with an OS...
I did have to change things in the BIOS to get SATA to work, but everything seemed to indicate that I could re-image my drive to an SSD when the time comes.
I am waiting for 500 gig SSDs to come down in price before I actually do the upgrade.
JR
I did have to change things in the BIOS to get SATA to work, but everything seemed to indicate that I could re-image my drive to an SSD when the time comes.
I am waiting for 500 gig SSDs to come down in price before I actually do the upgrade.
JR
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- KVRist
- 44 posts since 21 Sep, 2007
Yes, use SSD with R1 will be great but is someone able to add SATA support for old kernel in OS 1.7?johnrule wrote:As a preliminary test, I replaced the IDE drive in my Receptor 1 with a SATA drive...and simply installed Linux (KUbuntu I think). It was very interesting to simply turn my Receptor into a PC with an OS...
I did have to change things in the BIOS to get SATA to work, but everything seemed to indicate that I could re-image my drive to an SSD when the time comes.
I am waiting for 500 gig SSDs to come down in price before I actually do the upgrade.
JR
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- KVRist
- 411 posts since 25 Apr, 2007 from Northern CA
That was the point of my post...I used a SATA drive for the experiment. It does indeed work with a Receptor 1 (OS 1.7).Balda wrote:Yes, use SSD with R1 will be great but is someone able to add SATA support for old kernel in OS 1.7?
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I was hoping my post showed 4 things:
1) Booting from a SATA drive will work fine on older Receptors.
2) SATA (therefore SSD) works fine.
3) You can easily switch back to IDE if you need to.
4) You can turn your old Receptor into a Linux or Windows VST host or backup PC (i.e. it doesn't have to be an expensive paper-weight).
(caveats)
- You lose IDE support because of the way the BIOS handles SATA.
- You still have the old OS.
- The audio card is custom, so drivers may be an issue (for Windows).
JR
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- KVRian
- 581 posts since 30 Nov, 2008 from Denver CO USA
I have an R2 but this makes me very curious. I am wondering if It would be possible to upgrade the MOBO, CPU and RAM. Maybe more and better I/O
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- KVRist
- 44 posts since 21 Sep, 2007
But you wrote "As a preliminary test, I replaced the IDE drive in my Receptor 1 with a SATA drive...and simply installed Linux (KUbuntu I think)." and this isn't the same;-) Run Kubuntu with kernel 2.6 and the original OS1.7 with kernel 2.4...So if I understand well you was able to run receptor OS 1.7 from SATA drive, right?johnrule wrote:That was the point of my post...I used a SATA drive for the experiment. It does indeed work with a Receptor 1 (OS 1.7).Balda wrote:Yes, use SSD with R1 will be great but is someone able to add SATA support for old kernel in OS 1.7?
[edit]
I was hoping my post showed 4 things:
1) Booting from a SATA drive will work fine on older Receptors.
2) SATA (therefore SSD) works fine.
3) You can easily switch back to IDE if you need to.
4) You can turn your old Receptor into a Linux or Windows VST host or backup PC (i.e. it doesn't have to be an expensive paper-weight).
(caveats)
- You lose IDE support because of the way the BIOS handles SATA.
- You still have the old OS.
- The audio card is custom, so drivers may be an issue (for Windows).
JR