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Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
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Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
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Currently have the Amstrad 320GB HD box, am looking to go to 1 or 2 TB
is there anyone on here local (preferably) to the north west that can upgrade my box with me or for me ?
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Re: Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
If you want to maintain a usable box then dont bother. I'm afraid the original amstrad boxes do not behave very well with upgraded drives becoming very slow and unreliable.
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- 12-09-10, 07:24 PM #3
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Re: Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
ok thanks, what brand of box runs best with an upgraded HDD ?
- 12-09-10, 08:43 PM #4
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Re: Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
The new Amstrad's (DRX890's) seem to work pretty well with upgraded drives. The Pace and Thomsons run slower but they work reliably with good drives. The Samsung's can be pretty fussy about the drives they accept but run similarly to the Pace's once you find a good drive.
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Re: Can anyone on these forums do HDD upgrades for sky + HD boxes
I upgraded my Thomson HD box about 15 months ago. I fitted a 1TB Samsung HDD and the most time consuming part of the exchange was using Copy+ to move my existing programmes to the new drive - it took overnight! The actual physical swop is very simple and well documented on this site.
After the swap my box runs much faster and smoother especially on FFW. It is a little noisiier but doesn't cause a problem.
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