Samsung HD Box - How to change the HDD

[NewsreadeR]

They need to catch up to virgin in that dept.

VM - 1 HD channel

Sky - 33 HD channels with allegedly another 10 before Christmas

VM really need to catch up with Sky in that department imho

[NewsreadeR]

I upgraded my Samsung HD box to a 1 TB HDD bought here for £65.....
1Tb Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B SATA-2 Hard Drive 16MB Cache - Aria Technology

That's the drive I have gone for. (I think) Thanks for the tip about the acoustic settings.

[Old_nick]

Oh.

So would need 500gb then. oops.

Anyway of getting rid of sky anytime, I find it garbage anyway, nothing on.

They need to catch up to virgin in that dept.

Well, my Sky HD box was the first one to have Anytime on it, and before I got it I thought it would be a waste of time, but I find that I use it a lot, and I would not like to lose it. If I have a half-hour gap between live programmes, I can slip in an Anytime documentary, and quite often they put the latest HD movie from the movies package on Anytime, which means that I don't have to record it off-air and risk a clash with something else.

[Isitme]

I can slip in an Anytime documentary, and quite often they put the latest HD movie from the movies package on Anytime, which means that I don't have to record it off-air and risk a clash with something else.

That is what I find most useful, it is very handy being able press a button to transfer a Movie from Anytime to your Planner It would be even better if it could 'learn' what you watched and download programs to suit. I don't subscribe to Kids or Arts so would like more documentaries instead.

[NewsreadeR]

Great news, the Hitachi Drive works 38% free having copied everything off my Seagate one over.

Here's a link to Hitachi for the tools to lower the acoustics.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor...tm#FeatureTool

Although the current version does not support this feature.

Update:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor.../ftool_212.iso is a CD image of the tool that does. How long this file lasts though is anyone's guess. Download it and then burn to CD and then boot your PC from CD to use the tools.

[Smiffy71]

Do any of these HDD suggestions work in the Samsung boxes built this year? I understand that they work in some produced last year, but maybe not the newer ones.

[NewsreadeR]

My box was made April 2009

[Smiffy71]

Great stuff, so what is your definitive 1TB hard drive to put in it. I have tried a Samsung Spinpoint and it kept cutting out, just don't want to keep buying 'em and flogging them on, luckily the last one ended up in my PC as I needed a bit more space in there anyway.

Cheers

Smiffy

[NewsreadeR]

Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM is the one I have in at the moment, no issues whatsoever so far, and that's after copying 638gb off the old Seagate, which is now in my PC

I haven't tried recording anything yet, although I have some stuff lined up for tonight. Playback of Anytime programmes is fine, so I guess the recordings should also be.

See this post if you want to change the acoustics of the HDD - I guess it makes it quieter?

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-h...tml#post211162

[Smiffy71]

Thanks once again.