My Foxsat HDR is at least 10 years old and still faultless, despite being the exclusive tuning source for all my TV viewing. Given its 12-18 hours of 7-days a week of powered on-time (!) I would very much like to replace its 320GB Hard Drive with a 1TB before it starts to fail.
Much research suggests that the sweet spot replacement capacity should be 1TB (rather than 2TB), based on this recorder's ability to format 1TB natively and the speed of populating and retrieving the media recordings.
Seagate ST1000MV002 "Pipeline") seems to have been a very popular and well thought of candidate, but these are now becoming quite rare and seem to be slightly over-priced plus the much stronger negative as likely to be "NOS", ie several years since actual manufacture and also some suggestions that their true age could lead to the warranty not being honoured at all. So I am now very nervous of that HDD. I certainly would not trust a cheaper "refurb", regardless of price, even for free!
Of current HDDs, I am inclined towards a 1TB WD Purple and wondered if anyone has direct experience of using this HDD in a Foxsat HDR? Is WD's SATA 3 easily and reliably throttlable back to the Foxsat's SATA 1 requirement?
Alternatively, reliable recommendations for any other current 1TB HDDs that can be totally relied on for compatibility with the Foxsat HDR would be very welcome.
Once i have that resolved, I would quite like to carry out the same procedure on a much less used HDR-FoxT2, so the correct HDD choice is very important.
Much research suggests that the sweet spot replacement capacity should be 1TB (rather than 2TB), based on this recorder's ability to format 1TB natively and the speed of populating and retrieving the media recordings.
Seagate ST1000MV002 "Pipeline") seems to have been a very popular and well thought of candidate, but these are now becoming quite rare and seem to be slightly over-priced plus the much stronger negative as likely to be "NOS", ie several years since actual manufacture and also some suggestions that their true age could lead to the warranty not being honoured at all. So I am now very nervous of that HDD. I certainly would not trust a cheaper "refurb", regardless of price, even for free!
Of current HDDs, I am inclined towards a 1TB WD Purple and wondered if anyone has direct experience of using this HDD in a Foxsat HDR? Is WD's SATA 3 easily and reliably throttlable back to the Foxsat's SATA 1 requirement?
Alternatively, reliable recommendations for any other current 1TB HDDs that can be totally relied on for compatibility with the Foxsat HDR would be very welcome.
Once i have that resolved, I would quite like to carry out the same procedure on a much less used HDR-FoxT2, so the correct HDD choice is very important.