VS880 - Hard Drive Upgrade

This is the first major upgrade I have ever done to my VS880. Originally equipped with a tiny 1 gig or so hard drive.
This is a new 4 gig HD that will quadruple the storage capacity!
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[IanCanefire]

Hi, I own the vsr880. I want to put a SD card in it. However the one I have is not working and I want to troubleshoot by first replacing the hdd with another hdd. Did you have to do anything to the hdd before you put it in? Or once you put it in then all you need to do is format? Thank.

[rickbell7]

@IanCanefire

The VS880 will format the drive once it is installed. Remember to keep the maximum size around 4 gig. I've heard that drives over 8-10 gig can cause the 880 to become unstable, so I'd recommend staying as close to 4-6 as possible. Also remember that the VS/VSR 880 will only use a max od 4 gig, so anything larger will be left unused.

PS: The SD adapter I put in mine is still working flawlessly.

[billycat1965]

what do i type in on ebay to find a hard drive

[rickbell7]

@billycat1965

Try typing in (VS880 Hard Drive) or (hard drive VS880). Either of these should get you close to what you are looking for.

Sad to say, these small cacpacity hard drives are getting harder to find these days. But there are still some out there.

[ShaneFoxX]

all of these are all greek to me! wow, seems hard to own things like that, i'd need a PhD!

[dano465]

Dang you do everything.

[Dagnamski]

Somewhere somebody said Sandisk cards don't work. This is wrong. Depending on the converter card you buy, read the speeds it can handle which is the most important factor.

I just popped mine in, works at 30mbit per second all 4 tracks recording fine which is the max on a sandisk. The controller is 40mbits per second but the card is 30. THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY! I'll get another one soon for a 124 track machine LOOOOooooOOOOOL!

[Dagnamski]

I use SPDIF as the interface to use the AD converters of the VS880 to bypass the computer soundcard

[rickbell7]

@lalomania1

I'd try to stay with a drive under 10 Gig's. I have read in some forums that the VS880 could become unstable if too large a drive is used. Sadly, it is becoming more difficult to find these small capacity drives. That's another reason I recently converted my VS880 to use standard SD cards as a hard drive. Works well and is silent.

[lalomania1]

@rickbell7 Hi Does it have to be small capacity for it to work? I dont think I cand find a small capacity disc but I probably can find standard IDE notebook type HD's, I dont really care if I waste some GBs. Thanks!

[shespeakstroof]

@rickbell7 this is funny. Rick, thanks for being kind enough to respond but I don't know who hijacked my name. I never posted that question. This is wild. I'm going to have to change my name. This is too much like weird. (staring and occasionally blinking).

[rickbell7]

@lifeontheverge

The hard drives that I have were all found on E-Bay. It is getting harder to find these small capacity HD's, but they are still out there. It is a standard IDE notebook type (2½") drive. Must be IDE and not SATA.

Look for something between 2-6Gig's. Remember that the VS880 will only use 4Gig of the drive, so anything larger is not really practical.