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danco

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I may want to use an external drive on my Humax to transfer recordings to my computer (I can do it by FTP, but that is slow). Is an ext4 formatted drive OK. that is probably what I would be using on the computer. I ask because the Humax came out before ext4 was introduced, I think.

Also, do you think it is worthwhile replacing the Humax hard drive by a bigger one (probably 2TB)? If so, are any particular drives currently recommended? I want to stay with the T2 as long as possible rather than a newer model because I find the customised firmware really useful.
 
danco said:
I may want to use an external drive on my Humax to transfer recordings to my computer (I can do it by FTP, but that is slow).
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Unless you have a very slow home network, you won't find USB much faster:
Black Hole said:
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.

Out of interest I copied the same set of files (undecrypted) by FTP, and on my 11g (I think) link to the PC (AV200 from the Humax) the transfer took 14 minutes. However, for this method to be viable first you need to decrypt the files in the Humax, and we are in the realms of hacked rather than non-hacked.
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danco said:
Is an ext4 formatted drive OK. that is probably what I would be using on the computer.
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I've never head of Ext4 being used. If you are using Linux (hence Ext4), there is no reason you can't make that Ext3 – or even Ext2 (which is kinder to UPDs).

danco said:
Also, do you think it is worthwhile replacing the Humax hard drive by a bigger one (probably 2TB)? If so, are any particular drives currently recommended? I want to stay with the T2 as long as possible rather than a newer model because I find the customised firmware really useful.
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This is a separate subject and you'll find plenty of advice already written. Whether it is worthwhile depends how much crap you want to save up before you decide to get rid of some.
 
danco said:
I may want to use an external drive on my Humax to transfer recordings to my computer (I can do it by FTP, but that is slow).
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Unless you have a very slow home network, you won't find USB much faster:
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Thanks. I didn't know that.
danco said:
Is an ext4 formatted drive OK. that is probably what I would be using on the computer.
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I've never head of Ext4 being used. If you are using Linux (hence Ext4), there is no reason you can't make that Ext3 – or even Ext2 (which is kinder to UPDs).
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Main reason for Ext4 rather than Ext3 is that I know almost nothing about Linux, but have just got a Raspberry Pi, which has Ext4 as default. But the earlier part of your reply makes this irrelevant as I might as well stick with FTP and not use a drive.
danco said:
Also, do you think it is worthwhile replacing the Humax hard drive by a bigger one (probably 2TB)? If so, are any particular drives currently recommended? I want to stay with the T2 as long as possible rather than a newer model because I find the customised firmware really useful.
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This is a separate subject and you'll find plenty of advice already written. Whether it is worthwhile depends how much crap you want to save up before you decide to get rid of some.
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Yes, I was aware of that. But most of that is old enough that I wasn't sure if the advice still held. Anyway, I'll follow your comment and ask separately if I don't find recent enough responses.
 
danco said:
Main reason for Ext4 rather than Ext3 is that I know almost nothing about Linux, but have just got a Raspberry Pi, which has Ext4 as default.
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When you format a drive you can choose which format to use, even on RPiOS, and I can't imagine you'll be plugging the RPi's boot drive (a micro-SD card) into the HDR-FOX!
 
When you format a drive you can choose which format to use, even on RPiOS, and I can't imagine you'll be plugging the RPi's boot drive (a micro-SD card) into the HDR-FOX!
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Yes, I knew that. What I did not know was if there was any good reason not to use the default option. And anyway you have given me a good reason not to plug in an external drive at all.

Thanks for the link
 
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