I copied some CDs to the internal Hard drive of my car (MY2019), but it was showing as full after just a handful. My older Disco4 had space for 8, I would have thought that there should be more space available.

I have ripped some CDs to FLAC which should make the file size smaller and copied those across, they still seem to sound as good (to my ears), but I am intrugued as to how many more albums I could fit on. Anyone know the capacity available for media storage?

It might depend on the quantity of tracks on each disc.(File size?)
Pretty sure I copied 10 onto mine.

That makes sense. I had ticked the "rip at highest quality" option, which probably didn't help.

Has anyone ever gone in there, knife-and-fork in hand, and swapped it out for a 6TB one?
Sounds like a useful project…….

Should work if the disk format & file system/boot files? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” -where’s the fun in that?

The multimedia system is powered by the IVI (Intel in-vehicle infotainment), practically an Intel Atom micro PC with a 60GB SSD... "It's an Intel Quad Core 1.9 GHz Atom E3845 SOC with 4GB of RAM and a 60GB SSD. If Rear Seat Entertainment is specified, a 160GB SSD is used. With the 60GB drive, 10GB is configured for user media, the 160GB drive increases that to 110GB of user media storage". The maps occupy ~ 35GB.
Due to the design, I don't believe the SSD can be replaced/upgraded. Why not just save the files on an USB drive? I am successfully using a 512GB drive in mine, but it is true that with CarPlay, Spotify and YouTube Music it never gets used these days...

Interesting. I do have the RSE, so should have something like 75GB of free space.

A typical FLAC compressed CD takes up around 450MB, so I should be able to squeeze 160 CDs on. I'll give it a go.

Not sure what's wrong with my maths, but I've now managed to squeeze 24 CDs, ripped to FLAC on to the hard drive.

24 x 450 almost exactly 10GB... Maybe the SSD is the 60GB one?

That makes sense. Mine does have RSE, but is an early facelift, so maybe they were still only fitting the 60GB SSD.

Anyway, 24 CDs is enough for me, so I'm happy.