Hard drive

dougmccu · Post by **dougmccu** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:44 pm

The pa3x 76 comes with a hard drive. Can anyone tell me the capacity of this hard drive? The literature, etc. doesn't say. Thanks.

fResH_ · Post by **fResH_** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:48 pm

280 or 320gb i think?

dougmccu · Post by **dougmccu** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:32 pm

Thanks!

AntonySharmman · Post by **AntonySharmman** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:36 pm

Although I believe that is 160 GB , goto Media/HD/ media info and what you see plus 2 Gb (sys)

cristi_pa1xpro · Post by **cristi_pa1xpro** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:56 pm

My pa 3x,500 GB !

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:04 am

Australian models shipped with 230GB HDD
Some owners have changed theirs.

dimitris · Post by **dimitris** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:17 am

Mine was 160GB but, I have changed it with an SSD 120GB.

Regards,
Dimitris

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:56 am

Hi Dimitris

I have changed it with an SSD 120GB

Thought about doing this to mine but couldn't figure what the benefit would be.

Did you notice any difference?

Cheers

Pete

Elektroman · Post by **Elektroman** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:30 am

karmathanever wrote:Hi Dimitris

I have changed it with an SSD 120GB
Thought about doing this to mine but couldn't figure what the benefit would be.

Did you notice any difference?

Cheers

Pete

Massive difference Pete.
The drive it comes with is a slow 5200rpm economy unit. SSD uses less power and is 50x faster. The biggest difference I noticed was transferring files to and from the PC via the USB-PC mode.
Mine is 80GB SSD.

On a side note, none of my PC's actually now use spindrives. All are SSD, including my studio rig.

Dikikeys · Post by **Dikikeys** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:58 pm

I hope they REALLY work hard on making the internal data pipe much faster on the next generation of Korg arrangers...

In fairness, sure, upping the computer/arranger transfer speeds helps a BIT, but let's face it - what we REALLY want is to be able to load up samples on the gig or at home QUICKLY from the internal disk. And going to an SSD doesn't help that hardly at all, because the data pipe from the disk into the arranger's sample memory is almost 90's (maybe even 80's) in its implementation!

We live in an age where computers load up GB sized sample sets in the blink of an eye. We even have a Korg keyboard that can read samples directly off the HD (Kronos and siblings). That the arrangers they make are still saddled with Jurassic technology is not helping the acceptance of the type...

AntonySharmman · Post by **AntonySharmman** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:38 am

Elektroman wrote: The drive it comes with is a slow 5200rpm economy unit. SSD uses less power and is 50x faster.
The biggest difference I noticed was transferring files to and from the PC via the USB-PC mode.
Mine is 80GB SSD.

In a latest Mac/PC i7 3,8 GHz system , you can see the speed difference of an IDE HD of 80 Mb/sec and a latest
generation SATA3 SSD with 550 Mb/sec write speed , where peripheral speed there is high !
In a PaSeries with the very outdated single CPU & peripheral speed ( no matter of sata drivers) , the 3Gb sata3 SSD
beneficiary high speed can't be supported , and do not expect to see the real speed difference between two drives !

Therefore the real difference of choosing an SSD there is essentially to get rid of mechanical/magnetic moving parts
of an HD and minimize data lost.

Dikikeys · Post by **Dikikeys** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:47 pm

I agree completely about the benefits of an SSD primarily being you can beat the keyboard to death and not worry about your delicate spinning HD!

I've always been a bit nervous about playing my K2500 hard while it either reads or writes...

dimitris · Post by **dimitris** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:41 am

karmathanever wrote:Hi Dimitris

I have changed it with an SSD 120GB
Thought about doing this to mine but couldn't figure what the benefit would be.

Did you notice any difference?

Cheers

Pete

Hi Pete,

The difference in speed feel is 15%-20% in loading/saving.

Try a Kingston SSD because with the Sandisk I got errors!!!

Regards,
Dimitris