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Copying old drive to the new drive same machine

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sine24

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Search as I tried could not find the answer

What is the best/fastest way to transfer recordings

What kind of transfer rate is standard?

about 3-400gb
 
sine24 said:
What is the best/fastest way to transfer recordings
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The fastest way is to connect both drives to a proper Linux machine instead of relying on the HDR-FOX's limited processing power and slow USB.

sine24 said:
Search as I tried could not find the answer

What kind of transfer rate is standard?
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Didn't search hard enough (linked from my sig panel):
Black Hole said:
Stage 1.8 - Transfer Speeds

I don't know how long the same copy would have taken to a USB memory stick, but copying 5.86GB to the portable drive took about 34 minutes. It only took 3 minutes to get it into the PC! For comparison, I copied 6 half-hour (+padding) radio recordings to a FAT32 USB stick (which means 18 files - no thumbnail on radio recordings), totalling 1.7GB in 9 minutes. The surprise is that it is roughly 200MB/min either to USB hard drive or to USB Flash drive. However, the USB stick then took 1:40 to copy into the PC.
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Decrypted recordings copy faster than when there is decryption going on in the process.

The best way is whatever is most convenient - it doesn't matter how long it takes as long as it doesn't require continual intervention and you just go away and let it get on with it. Unfortunately the SUI is pretty bad at doing that for large transfers, it tends to bomb out. Using WebIF to command the transfer might be more successful.

sine24 said:
also, how long does it take humax to format a 2tb drive?
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Hardly any time at all.
 
That fan clip is one bugger to remove. Can I just check : you have to prize the bugger AWAY from the clip, right?
 
It's just hard to get fingers in there. IIRC the clip needs to be squeezed.

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Thank you for your help.

What is wrong with it? It keeps coming with download full web/ installs stuff/ reboots/ wants to download again
 
Black Hole said:
The best way is whatever is most convenient - it doesn't matter how long it takes as long as it doesn't require continual intervention and you just go away and let it get on with it. Unfortunately the SUI is pretty bad at doing that for large transfers, it tends to bomb out.
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My experience when copying from a USB drive attached to the Humax is that the tendency to bomb out depends on the quality of the USB to SATA adapter. With an old adapter it was indeed bombing out quite frequently, with a new adapter (USB3 capable) it didn't bomb out once.
 
sine24 said:
What is wrong with it? It keeps coming with download full web/ installs stuff/ reboots/ wants to download again
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What does it do if you're not fiddling with the web interface? Is this a new HDD you're talking about?
 
Yeah, so you've screwed up your CF installation. I assume you haven't forgotten some of it is installed in Flash but the rest is downloaded to HDD? Therefore it's not on the new drive.

Telnet in and set RMA mode, and reboot as required. Telnet in again and cancel RMA mode, reboot again. Now you should be able to browser in and do it again from a clean slate.
 
Black Hole said:
Yeah, so you've screwed up your CF installation. I assume you haven't forgotten some of it is installed in Flash but the rest is downloaded to HDD? Therefore it's not on the new drive.
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I don't think I ever understood what goes where. Also the wiki doesn't mention that once you replace the drive you lose CF.

Thank you for your instructions
 
Black Hole said:
The Custom Firmware is a collection of components. The actual firmware component inserts the necessary "hooks" into the existing Humax firmware in Flash memory so that other non-Humax code can run, and provides a few basic facilities (for example: Telnet access). The firmware component is added to the standard Humax firmware by means of an update using a USB pen drive (UPD), using the normal process for performing a manual firmware update.

The software component is loaded onto the HDR-FOX internal hard disk drive (directly or indirectly) by Internet download. With the firmware component installed, a minimal web browser interface permits download of the software component, following which a reboot brings up the full web interface. The full web interface then provides package management by which you can select and install the optional facilities you require, by further Internet download.
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Great
It's all installed now thanks to BH
Not so great
144 uncorrectable errors
Disk temperature 65
installed fan / set at min 49% but after about 10 min temp still 63

How soon after installing sysmon do you get a graph?

The drive whilst being old has been unused until I popped it in today

What to do now?
 
fan sorted now
Black Hole said:
Make that 100%. I suppose you did remember to reconnect the fan?





Eek. That's after a fixdisk? Give it another go (once you've sorted out the fan).
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No, that's after a smart test.

Did a fixdisk which looped in error LBA 0 for more than 2 hrs.

I can feel the fan now working at 100%

Now the box wants to format drive again.

Shall I let it?
 
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