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Ricky · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 27

Can I (or my technician) put a solid state drive the the O, instead of the harddisk installed from factory?
AFAIK the drive is ATA100. Are there any SSD drives with that Interface?
Please advise. What about quality of SSD? Which are good and which are bad?

I travel quite a lot, and it would be safer to have a SSD.

If the harddisc should crash, how can I boot the O?
From USB? Or from Cd's?
Or am I totally "dead" and have to leave the audience without any music???

I haven't had any problems so far. Just tryin' to look ahead.

TIA

MartinHines · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:12 am Post subject:

I doubt the custom operating system would support an SSD drive, so the existing hard drive is it.

If it fails, you are out of luck. However I haven't heard of this situation occuring. Any keyboard could theoretically die/stop working, so you should always have a backup available.

X-Trade · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:03 am Post subject:

I suppose you could have an identical drive with the OASYS load cloned to it, using Norton or Acronis for example.

I have seen reports of users successfully having replaced the drive with a larger one so IF you did find a IDE SSD then it might work, but I would expect most SSDs to be SATA.
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Pianomanjess · Joined: 20 May 2010 Posts: 24 Location: Oklahoma

I recently got my O back from the nearest KORG authorized repair center, because I had some issues upon loading the OS, and it turned out my hard drive had went bad, the hard drive they replaced it with was 120 GB instead of the factory 60GB! So I know a larger drive can be supplied, but as for a SSD I do not know.

Akos Janca · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

More info regarding also SSD can be found on this and this pages. Nobody said it was impossible to replace the O hard disk with an SSD.

PS. Anybody wants to replace the SSD in Kronos with a hard disk? Wink

I mean you could sell the SSD and buy a much cheaper hard disk = saving money. Laughing

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Sharp · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject:

Can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
You just need to clone the HDD with GHOST. It would be interesting to see how fast it boots and loads / saves files when a SSD installed. I bet it would be a lot faster.

Regards
Sharp.

Ricky · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 27

Thanx for all your answers.
But someone's in doubt, other say it's possible!
Are there any way I can get it confirmed? Who will know it for sure?
Somebody at Korg? Can I contact them? How?

It will be an expensive operation. I will do it if it's possible, but I will not waste my money just to try it if it fails!

McHale · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:40 pm Post subject:

I'd bet it works. They make Parallel ATA drives that are pretty fast:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/SandForce-IDE-ATA-Mercury-Extreme-Pro-Legacy-Edition-Legacy-PC,11917.html

I'd find out what the return policy is if it doesn't and give it a shot. I guarantee that I'd give it a shot if I had an OASYS. I will be doing a backwards test on the KRONOS using a standard HD.
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MartinHines · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject:

Anukis · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject:

http://synth-voice.sakura.ne.jp/synth-voice/html5/column11.html

have a look
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billysynth1 · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:10 am Post subject:

Can someone translate all that lol

billy
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Akos Janca · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsynth-voice.sakura.ne.jp%2Fsynth-voice%2Fhtml5%2Fcolumn11.html

Translated by Google. Smile

It seems he succeeded. Thanks for the link.
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Anukis · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:26 am Post subject:

Im having great problems finding a 44 pin ssd drive. There is a brand called KingSpec but I don't want to use an unknown brand drive. If anyone is computer savvy enough to know what ssd drives will definitely work in the O please provide some links. As soon as I find one I will take my O apart and document this. OWC Mercury extreme pro seem to fit but I can't find out if they are 44 pin.

I have downloaded HDclone which should also clone the drive exactly so there should be no need to use authorisation disks. It has been used and passed by someone on karma-labs.
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Anukis · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

after a lot of research would it be safe to say, If I bought an ssd drive that was 2.5" IDE PATA that was 44 pin in any brand that it would work on an O?

I'm really getting excited about trying this since the factory hdd makes a tremendous amount of noise that travels out the audio outs into my soundcard and speakers. Im convinced its the hdd and not a ground loop.
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razzaq1 · Junior Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 50