gizmodo.com — Infinity has unveiled its latest model, the 2007 G35 that has an integrated 9.5GB hard drive that allows you to rip CDs onto. Seagate is being rumored to be the manufacturer of the 2.5-inch hard drive being used in these vehicles.
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tdiehmApr 16, 2006
While some are griping about the size, look at it this way: how many other cars have a built-in hard drive you can rip CDs to right now?At least it's a step in the right direction.
chodaboyApr 17, 2006
Let the hacking begin! I can see the it now... "Hey, car's pretty fast huh? Yeah, well mine's got a blower and nitrous. Oh yeah, well I'm packin' 1TB of HD space!"
themuffinmanApr 17, 2006
i cant believe the 1337 haxors haven't picked up on it yet, but if you read the article, it is a "9.5g" drive. ie it can survive 9.5 g's of shock. The drive will be between 20 and 40 gb. READ TFA!
burnt1ce85Apr 17, 2006
People who buy these cars dont have time to fill up the harddrive with 2000 compressed songs. You, are considered a small portion of the population that thinks 9.5 GB is too small. The average population doesnt even know what 'ripping' a cd means. And if a person can afford to buy a G35, im sure they have better things to do then rip over a 100 cds.
Closed AccountApr 17, 2006
@themuffinman: I'll show you a 100G shock drive..it's called compact flash. :)
jwizApr 17, 2006
The article says it is a 20 or 40 gig drive that can withstand 9.5 g's of acceleration.
sremickApr 17, 2006
INACCURATE and BAD LINKStrike 1: Linking to blog post instead of actual articleStrike 2: incorrect information (Drive can handle 9.5 Gs of FORCE. It is NOT a 9.5 GIGABYTE hard drive!)Maybe if the dumbasses who keep linking to blogs instead of the original article would get a clue, we wouldn't have so many inaccurate titles sparking a discussion which is 90% about the inaccurate parts.
probegt93Apr 17, 2006
nothing new... If I'm not mistaken you can get something called PhatNoise in Mazda and other brands of vehicles.
waverouterAug 19, 2006
Anybody read themuffinman's post up there?I also can't believe y'all haven't noticed there is a CF slot for transfering MP3s to the HD.Like themuffinman sez, RTFA!
limeadeOct 30, 2006
LOL, the stupidity in this thread is strong... I actually have the car, bought it yesterday and got it before the Nov. 1st start date.Anyhoo... the Hardrive isn't only 9.5 Gigs, its somewhere around 30-35 gigs, what a lot of you people are forgetting is that THE NAVIGATION MAPS TAKE UP 20 GIGS! lol, jeez how did nobody catch that?To the people that want 500 gig drives...... when a company makes car they care about every little screw, to galvanize, or not to, "well its only a 5 cent difference" yeah but over 1 million cars that makes a difference.Also the Nav unit in this car has a compact flash drive. The car can store plenty of music..You have 9.5 Gigs, that's 3000 songsYou have a flash drive port for up to what? 1000 songs?Then the single disk CD reader plays mp3 data discs, so that what 300 songsSo does the 6 disc changer in the back, so that's 1800 songs......So 6100 songs isn't enough? Give me a break guys lol
awolbushDec 13, 2006
The Compact Flash drive file system is severely limited. I have a 2GB CF card with 25 folders and a total of 540 tracks. The system only sees 17 of the folders and sees only 512 tracks. Bummer! The HD holds 9.3 GB, and each CD inserted automatically gets ripped at 4x. In hi quality mode tracks can be stored at 132 kBits/s. This gives a total of 152 hours. The only problem is that it takes so long to rip, I have 42 CDs ripped so far and 2 of my CDs hung the ripper.
mash20Dec 22, 2006
Bought this car last week - amazing. The "Music Box" as Infiniti calls it is great, however it doesn't cater to iPod users in that if you download iTunes songs on to a disk it puts them in hard drive as "Track 01, Track 02" and so on. This is really an Apple issue, not Infiniti (since Apple has a proprietary format, not .wma or mp3). If anyone knows a way around this I would love to hear it.
shoglundFeb 23, 2007
Does anyone have any idea how the Compact Flash music has to be formatted? I go the same problem as awolbush. It only reads about half of the music on my 2gig card. I do agree that 6100 songs should be enough but that doesn't justify such a small hard drive. It really wouldn't cost that much more to put in a 120 or 250 gig drive (these are drives that are considered mid range now and are still relatively inexpensive). I truly believe 30 gigs doesn't cut it.