Recent content by dkto

Well, thank you to all respondents and I seem to have a working disk now. Caution over Amazon suppliers seems warranted. The Seagate Pipeline ST2000VM003 which others have found a good replacement 2TB drive is now discontinued, but I persisted. First Amazon supplier (Artio International...

@MartinLiddle - also thank you. Will still post label when I get at box. For what it is worth, hummy still cranks away despite disk problems and continues to record stuff, most of which is coming out fine.

@prpr Thank you - that is exactly the sort of thing I need highlighted and explained. @MymsMan Thank you too for highlighting and explaining @AndyFox Good to know, thank you @Ezra Pound Perfect ammunition, thank you Time to start fighting with supplier for a refund (they...

@prpr Thank you for your reply. Seeing as you asked, I reinstalled the custom firmware initially to get it up to date as it was several years old, then after wiping the disk I did it again to get a clean slate and exclude any possible complications from any added packages or messing up of...

@MartinLiddle Good thought - I will post more details from (paper) disk label when I open box up again after the weekend as I am away until next week. Sorry did not take a photo before install, which is always a handy thing to have done. For better or worse it was an Amazon order (I am not...

@MymsMan Thanks for feedback.

The unit is quite old and therefore supply voltages may have drifted if controlled with evaporating electrolytics or something, or historically abused by one the other drives in its death throes. I don't have anything very precise to measure them with unfortunately, especially under load and...

I used to use fan package before last disk blew up - I was on out-of-box firmware until first disk died, after a number of years, then ran on custom firmware with the factory replacement, for a few more years. I had not yet put 'fan' back on and weather has been a tad warm, but I think that...

Hi to all. I have had my HDR-T2 for quite a while and have sent it back for disk replacement once already, which they did for disk cost and postage and in short time frame. Very happy with that but it was years ago. The disk failed again a while later and I did not get round to doing anything...