Ok so today i packed up my Alpine hda-5460 to ship it back as a return to cructchfield. Buying that unit seemed so practical and awesome at the time i bought it but it turned out to be a friggin nightmare. The reason the thing sucks so much is becasue the software it comes with is HORRIBLE.

1. Half the time you transfer or delete files from the hard drive they dont store or dont erase.

2. Making playlists takes FOREVER, just trying to find the song you want to hear out of 3,000+ is next to impossible, it takes like 5 minutes and you have to watch the road at the same time.

3. The transfer from the computer to the hard drive is only compatible to usb 1.1 so it takes FOREVER to transfer (again and then when youre done sometimes it doesnt even work).

I am just keeping my alpine cda-9825 and buying an ipod+KCA-420i to have the same effect but with portability as well as software ease. The only thing i will miss abou the HDA was the cool graphics it displayed on the screen.