CIC Hard drive took a dump.
 

Day before bringing the X in for an oil service, nav came up as 'function not available'.


Hard drive failure. Replaced at NC. $2300 plus install to warranty. Lost a few songs on the hard drive.

Biggest surprise? They were able to order it by 12 noon and had it in house the next AM, car was done 30 hrs after dropping off. Not the BMW Ive been used to years ago (when they would not expedite shipping without major approvals)

30,500 miles- first problem.

Ard, its just a Toshiba hard drive, 80 GB. Its actually removable from the CIC, once you take the trim piece off, you can remove it without having to remove the entire CIC.
$2300?:wow:

They might be replacing the entire CIC unit huh?

^^ They probably are at that price.

Is it a regular HDD, or SSD? I always wondered if an SSD upgrade would speed boot up/response.

Regular mechanical HD

Is this something that we, as owners, could replace ourselves?

I'd like to know as well. Would be nice if it was a DIY upgrade to SSD.

I think its been tried (my russian translation is poor), according to what I have read on the russian coding forums, with negligible increase in performance

So does this mean that the regular HDD can be changed very easily?

Or maybe you could fit a higher capacity hard drive, if the vehicle is able to recognize it.

link?

I know.

Warranty- car is a 2012 with 32k miles. Crazy not to let BMW repair it and retain my warranty.

Replaced two nav units on the E39, one CCC on the 2010X5, and this... all paid for by my friends at BMW.

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PS Say, I do have a failing amp on the DSP E39 M audio...probably a failed electrolytic cap on one of the input stages- with heat I get this odd motorboating that escalates into a squeal. Fix is to open the trunk and drive around to cool it. Very classy. Need to rip that puppy out and open it up one of these days.... havent found anyone that fixes those!

they didn't say anything in that thread about performance. they just said SSD drive will live longer than the original since it won't be affected by temperature/vibration

they also linked this thread which tells you how to increase the size of your music partition

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpo...8&postcount=46