[acadie]

I got a new BDP-1 (Jna 2012) and finally just got a BDA-1 last week.

I’ve been ripping those redbook cd’s since Nov ( 3000 cd’s).

Did someone replace the USB cord that comes with the external hard drive by a high price USB cord. A friend uses a Wireworld  UBS cord (over $400) with his MAC  and DAC and say it was amazing the different it made. But he lives in Texas and I am in Ottawa.

Another question, is it a major issue if I did not format my hard-rive in FAT32?

[skunark]

There are other threads on this topic you should search for and review.   Feel free to demo one and make your own opinion but the cable that came with the hdd is guarantee to meet the standards that the manufacture wants and will be no less reliable (probably more) than other USB cables at any price.   

Short answer though use the cable that came with your hdd. 

Which filesystem did you use?   

[wilsynet]

I would be very surprised indeed if the USB cable between the BDP-1 and the hard drive would make any difference whatsoever.

Between computer and USB DAC, I can suspend disbelief and imagine that if there might be a difference between good and reliable SPDIF cables versus high priced SPDIF cables, then I might imagine that there may be a difference with USB cables between computer and DAC.

But between computer and hard drive?  No way unless you have a faulty USB cable.

You have to keep in mind that between computer and USB DAC, the signaling between the two is either an isochronous or an asynchronous data stream.  If there is error or re-transmission is required, the data is not corrected.  But between a computer (or BDP-1) and hard drive, the hard drive is treated as a mass storage block device -- error and re-transmission is always retried, and data blocks are buffered into the filesystem cache of the operating system.