I forgot that i posted my modification here, but it's really nice to see that it helps other people.

So hows my own mod holding up after a year? Well actually perfectly fine. I placed a 16gb CF card and used the archos together with a helmet cam to film snowboarding. Except the shortened battery ...

Hi BUC,

Thanx for your reaction. My goal of replacing the HD was to make the AV500 more shock resistant. I chose a set up of a converter and CF card because the CF card is relatively cheap compared to real solidstate disks.

Currently I use a 256MB CF card for testing the setup. It shows no lags in ...

Guys take a look at

http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21473

Hi Guys,

With the help of postings on this forum I've been able to replace my 30GB HD in my Archos av500 with a Compact Flash drive.
I will discribe how I did this.

Introduction
Although the AV500 is perfect for recording from a helmet cam, the 1,8 inch harddisk might give up on rough terrain ...