Replacement Hard Disk Recommendations

[surefire]

Hi folks, just to be clear, if a 4gb drive is fitted can the Humax access the whole 4gb for recording purposes?

Thanks

 

[af123]

Hi folks, just to be clear, if a 4gb drive is fitted can the Humax access the whole 4gb for recording purposes?

Yes (well, apart from the usual areas reserved for EPG data etc.)
A drive above 2TB only works with the custom firmware and needs specially formatting, but that can be done easily through the telnet menu.

 

[af123]

SWMBO will just fill it up with stuff that we will never ever watch !

Well, that's part of the consideration : )

 

[Black Hole]

Hi folks, just to be clear, if a 4gb drive is fitted can the Humax access the whole 4gb for recording purposes?

The information you require is on the wiki here: https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Very_Large_Hard_Drive

For general background, see Things Every... (click) section 12.

 

[Trev]

I will go for the 2TB otherwise SWMBO will just fill it up with stuff that we will never ever watch !

She'll probably do that regardless of the HDD size.

 

[MymsMan]

She'll probably do that regardless of the HDD size.

We still have the 500gb disk and have plenty of stuff that hasn't been watched yet

 

[martypants16]

This post has not been updated since Oct 2013 - are the Seagates still the best option ?
Have seen this: https://www.ebuyer.com/414223-seagate-2tb-pipeline-internal-hard-drive-st2000vm003# which would seem to fit the bill...

I had to replace mine again last year and used the same drive. From E buyer.

 

[Black Hole]

We still have the 500gb disk and have plenty of stuff that hasn't been watched yet

I've argued that for a long time. If rate-of-watching < rate-of-recording, it's a losing battle however big the drive is (all a bigger drive achieves is to put off the evil day and multiply the work required to sort it out).

There are only 24 hours in a day, only 7 days in a week, and only a proportion of those are available for telly watching. If you were to record 1 hour per day's worth more than you watch (on average), it would take 16 months to fill a 500GB disk (assuming 1GB/hour)... but conversely, if you have a 500GB backlog and manage to watch an hour more than new recordings (per day, on average), it will take 16 months to clear the backlog.

You only need to record (on average) the same amount as you watch (on average), like a FIFO buffer. Anything over that is just clutter and stuff that's being kept for sentimental reasons. Delete the clutter, and park the sentimental/rainy-day stuff on an external drive.

However, the counter arguments are that big drives are now much cheaper than they used to be, and if you need to replace your drive anyway there's very little cost difference in fitting a big drive rather than like-for-like. Also, if there are multiple users, a big drive provides room for FIFOs for each individual.

 

[EEPhil]

Delete the clutter, and park the sentimental/rainy-day stuff on an external drive.

Did that. Now the damned external drives are nearly full as well. I'm useless at de-cluttering!

 

[MymsMan]

Did that. Now the damned external drives are nearly full as well. I'm useless at de-cluttering!

A total disk failure is a good thing
It saves you from all the hassle of deciding what you will save and the time taken to do the copying, finding space to copy to plus the copying back to a new drive

 

[Black Hole]

I think it would be a good idea if somebody summarised the current position re suitable replacement HDDs for the HDR-FOX. Anybody volunteer?