disk drives

Hi All, apologies for reaching out to you but I’ve come to the end of my abologies. I have a HDR-fox T2, I swapped the Hdd to a 2TB HDD an age ago with no issues and it’s running custom wear After many years of happy service, when I boot it, it cycles through Start-up / custom firmware. I...

One of my units flagged disk errors (lines 197 and 198 of the smart statistics): there are eight pending and offline uncorrectable sectors. I have run fix-disk; it asks if I want to repair a sector, I select 'y' and it says that this was successful, but then asks if I want to repair the same...

I have a 2TB WD Purple (WD20PURX-64P6ZY0) which I have been testing in a HDR-FOX for the last week. there has been some confusion as to whether this model is suitable for use in a PVR. Recent discussions (see here) indicate that it is not the best choice. I have already noticed some odd...