mellow_sparky

I set out this weekend to import my entire music library (about 40 GB) onto the car's HD. However I probably only got about 20% done and the car said the HD was at capacity.

I could have sworn we had something like 80GB, but maybe it's more like 10GB?

Anyone know off hand?

txtommy

The A4/S4 brochure states 'The hard drive allows you to preload 10-GB of personal audio files.' I believe that I read elsewhere that the hard drive is 40 GB but most of that 30 GB of that is used by other software.

rktskicar

you could just run a 32G HDSC card.

Bruce

WatchNut

That's what I do

westwest888

That is kind of lame.

rktskicar

why is that lame?

NWS4Guy

Yep 40G, only 10 is allowed for user.

WatchNut

Would neither have been hard nor expensive to put in a larger drive. They are incredibly cheap now. You can get terabyte sized hard drives for under $60.

WatchNut

Even a 128GB solid state drive is about $230 at retail, and less at wholesale.

questionlp

In part, the hard drive used needs to be able to handle the bumps and vibrations and probably have to deal with higher temperatures than ones found in desktops or laptops. I think the drive used by Audi is either a 1.8" or a 2.5" hard drive. My guess is that the next generation MMI will use a higher capacity drive. I'm not saying that it doesn't make Audi cheap, but it's a consideration.

I use the SD slots, which is significantly easier to load and switch out music than dealing with the MMI hard drive. Sure, I'd probably load music that I really, really like on the drive at some point, but playlists can't span sources (i.e.: between the two SD slots).