Hard Drive Upgrade / Backing Up

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maxwech

04-11-2009

Originally Posted by Shawshank_Steve:
“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!

froxfieldrover

04-11-2009

Originally Posted by maxwech:
“ 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.

Patrick

Shawshank_Steve

04-11-2009

Originally Posted by froxfieldrover:
“FWIW, hoping its not my imagination but I definitely think it is quite a bit faster on deletes too.
Patrick”

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...

froxfieldrover

04-11-2009

[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..

Patrick

grahamlthompson

04-11-2009

Originally Posted by Shawshank_Steve:
“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.

pebbledash

05-11-2009

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.

grahamlthompson

05-11-2009

Originally Posted by pebbledash:
“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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