320GB to 1TB: Personal Storage vs On Demand
Skylover4life
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Hi there.
I upgraded my hard drive from a 320GB drive to a 1TB drive, and let the box do the formatting, and I was wondering if someone knows how much this set up gives you in regards to Personal Storage and On Demand storage?
Many thanks.
I upgraded my hard drive from a 320GB drive to a 1TB drive, and let the box do the formatting, and I was wondering if someone knows how much this set up gives you in regards to Personal Storage and On Demand storage?
Many thanks.
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They didn't used to format 1TB drives to full capacity, but I believe that they now do with the latest software.
If that is the case you should have 750GB for personal use and 250GB reserved by Sky.
I didn't think that Pace/Samsung boxes could format 1TB drives to full capacity.
The above model has a 320gb hdd I believe, 160gb reserved space/160gb personal space, pretty sure the box would format the new drive @ 160gb reserved space/840 personal space.
Would that box recognise a 1TB drive though, i thought that only the newer 890 would do that, and therefore would format at 160/160, with the rest of the space lost?
You could be right, I said my guess was an educated one.
Looks like the op needs to use copy+ to get full use of drive.
Deacon is right in saying that the reserved space will stay the same (giving ~840GB user space).
With the old OpenTV middleware the old boxes would only format a drive to 502GB max, IIRC.
How? - a PVR is for short term time shifting, you're supposed to record it, watch it, then delete it.
If you're using it for long term storage it's going to be a bad day when the HDD fails
I have lots of HD content which I wish to keep, but have no way of transferring it onto blu-ray or another storage medium. So its stuck on the box.
FIlms which are broadcast in HD but not available on blu-ray for example.
So you'll lose them all when the HDD dies
However, it's NOT what PVR's are meant for, and you're not supposed to be keeping long term copies.
If your willing to spend some money you can transfer the HD recordings off the drive.
I did this recently when I purchased a load of Blu Ray Dvd's from a closing HMV and didn't know how to rip them on to my XBMC pc easily.
So using a combo of HDFury 2 and a hauppauge hd pvr I got a digital copy I had recorded from the sky HD movie channels. Only problem is the copying happens in real time much like when we used to record on to video tapes.
I don't believe so, you're 'allowed' to make short term copies for time shifting, not to make permanent copies for your own use.
IIRC as the law stands now (it's been amended a few times over the years) it's perfectly legal to record material solely for your own personal use, and there is no regulation that says you're supposed to delete it after any fixed time.
Nothing to do with Sky, but to do with what the rights holders want.
A lot of people think one is legal whilst the other is illegal. Technically neither is illegal
The only legal recording of broadcasts is for "timeshift" and NOT for archiving . The length of that convenient time has not yet been defined in any court action however.