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Old 04-11-2009, 12:11
maxwech
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Can't say I've noticed the noise much on the old drive. I would have to say therefore it must be the same or even quieter. Seems a good choice of drive to me.

Got my caddy though today so I can sort that out when I get home. Should prevent the wife from murdering me!!!
Thanks a lot. Good luck with not being murdered as well!
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Old 04-11-2009, 13:28
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I was about to buy one of these as well. Do you notice the new drive being noisier than the stock one or about the same?
A me too post... confirming what Steve has said, I've got one of those disk drives installed too and am finding the same - not any more noise than before that I notice. So I assume again it must be about the same or quieter.

FWIW, hoping its not my imagination but I definitely think it is quite a bit faster on deletes too.

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Old 04-11-2009, 13:35
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FWIW, hoping its not my imagination but I definitely think it is quite a bit faster on deletes too.
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Can't say I've tried yet. Maybe you'll have more chance to delete something before the next prog starts to record

Roll on that firmware...
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Old 04-11-2009, 14:01
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[quote=Shawshank_Steve;36452043]Can't say I've tried yet. Maybe you'll have more chance to delete something before the next prog starts to record

Ha ha, I did think about adding something to that effect..

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Old 04-11-2009, 14:03
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Can't say I've tried yet. Maybe you'll have more chance to delete something before the next prog starts to record

Roll on that firmware...
I have tried that a recording will start even if the file deletion is not complete.
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Old 05-11-2009, 00:35
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Possibly of interest, certainly of concern:

Playing HD back from USB drive - picture break-up / like pixelation, viewable if really desperate.

By experiment I recorded one HD prog to USB (EXT3), then recorded back to HDR. The experiment being to see if it played ok, and it did, so all jolly fine.

However when I then tried to record the same prog again, from HDR to another USB (EXT3), I was confronted with blue circle / red cross on the HDR. Couldn't copy using green button. I'm seriously puzzled now. This was one of four David Attenborough / Life 1 hour progs which might be academic. The other three copied over fine but gained the blue circle / red cross.
I just wanted to copy all recordings from original HDD to USB and back to what will be the replacement 1GB drive on the HDR.
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Old 05-11-2009, 09:25
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Possibly of interest, certainly of concern:

Playing HD back from USB drive - picture break-up / like pixelation, viewable if really desperate.

By experiment I recorded one HD prog to USB (EXT3), then recorded back to HDR. The experiment being to see if it played ok, and it did, so all jolly fine.

However when I then tried to record the same prog again, from HDR to another USB (EXT3), I was confronted with blue circle / red cross on the HDR. Couldn't copy using green button. I'm seriously puzzled now. This was one of four David Attenborough / Life 1 hour progs which might be academic. The other three copied over fine but gained the blue circle / red cross.
I just wanted to copy all recordings from original HDD to USB and back to what will be the replacement 1GB drive on the HDR.
Most BBC HD carries a copy once flag that stops you copying it more than once over usb. If you connect the internal drive into a sata caddy on a pc you can copy anything so if you do it this way it won't be a problem. There is also a programme that can reset the copy flag but it's details are in a Hummy.org posting that no one can currently get access to
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