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I own one of the original Kronos & want to upgrade the SSD drive. I found one on sale for $119 for a 240 gig. Will my Kronos accept a drive of that size? Also, what is the most amount of RAM I can install? Please help! Very Happy

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JeffB63 · Junior Member Joined: 13 Feb 2013 Posts: 60

AFAIA you can put any size HDD in there.

The Kronos is 32bit so will only recognise 3Gb (3.25Gb) of memory.

I've got 3Gb in mine (because that's what I had lying about) but a lot of folks have 4Gb in theirs.

SanderXpander · Platinum Member Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 7860

I know at least some folks have mounted a 250GB disk. I think budget is more of a limit than anything else, and at some point there's just very little reason to put in a bigger disk.

Sharp · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:27 pm Post subject:

Far as I know there's only one person on the forum with a 500GB drive installed but no reason why you couldn't install a larger one.

As SanderXpander points out, it's more of a budget thing than a size thing.

Most people go with a 120GB to 250GB drive because their price vs capacity and intended use simply make more sense.

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Sharp.
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jeebustrain · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject:

The 240gb one i installed in mine works great.
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Francois · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:38 pm Post subject:

I installed a Samsung 256 Gb, no issue. The only potential problem is when you want to replace the factory SSD to keep only one drive inside the Kronos.

To resume:

- Adding a drive, no problem. From OS2 onwards, you can format any size.

- Replacing the factory SSD with a larger drive, the advised procedure is to clone the original drive and expand the Ext3 partition. This will bypass any potential problem formating the SSD and you get to keep the calibration data that is proprietary to your Kronos.
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jeremykeys · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:30 am Post subject:

If I am to understand this correctly, we are talking about adding a second SSD? I'm finding that my factory installed drive is getting full.
I do a lot of real audio recording. Vocals,guitars, bass, tortured animals, etc. not to worry. No computers were hurt in this recording!

Sorry. Back to reality. It's late here. Are there actually 2 slots for hard drives in my Kronos? If so, can I really put in a, say, 250 gig in the first slot and then at a later date replace the first with a, say, another 250 gig?
Yes I do know we're talking SSD drives here.
I'm not thinking about going bigger because I'm still a bit skeptical about the stability of larger ones.
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