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i mean 4 GB for the OS and apps
another 4 for the songs
another 4 for something else
that way it would be more stable more heat / shock resistant and tfring data between home / car would be a breze and the heat out put of the pc woyld go down aswell
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Mounted on the ghetto silicone washers, the amount of vibration on the HDD should be fairly low.
Additionally, laptop drives are fairly well adapoted to handle vibrations..the kind of treatment my laptop's poor HDD gets in the house is far worse than what this one would undergo...
Tfring data from home is anyway not a problem as I can tfr files from my home wireless network without unplugging anything..And for voluminous data transfers, I can always hook up a pen drive/ipod in disk mode to the USB port on the PC
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Watch out for the wiring and fuse of the lighter socket, they are not usually meant for high continuous current draw.
cheers.
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I was having issues with cranking and it is a big pain to hibernate the PC for short stops hence I setup a DIY tank setup last night
I wired a Gel Type 7AH battery to the PC so the PC is running off the continous (and clean ) power off that...
The charging of the secondary battery is being taken off by through a Diode Isolator coupled with a Filter Cap....
So now, the peak current on the accessories line is limited to 4A by the Diode
To be sure though, I measured the current draw on the Car power line:
0 A when car and PC are off
100-200mA with Car off but PC running
900mA to 2A with car and PC running and the Gel battery charging
I would guess this is within tolerable limits
I ordered the Chennai Destinator map from Satguide since they claim to have built their maps ground-up by picking GSI maps and hiring a team of cartographers to go on location to calibrate the maps unlike mapking which apparently has just overlaid co-ordinates on a digital map without any onsite work or calibration.
Got a 25% discount on the order too
The instal should be finally done by the coming Sunday after which I'll post the pics