.....I am not sure if this the case or pure coincidence and the machine itself is faulty..
Anyway, The new drive I have is the: Western Digital WD10EADS Caviar Green 1tb
I upgraded to a 1 TB hard drive over 3 weeks ago.
The first 2 weeks were absolutely fantastic and when I installed the disk I tested it recording 2 HD recordings at the same time and by playing back one of the recording channels at the same time. It was working perfectly well - with no issues at all. Really pleased.
I had replaced it by simply taking out the old and put the new in its place. No problem there I would have thought.
However, in the last 10 days or so there has been intermittent freezing and breaking up of the image, but only during playback of recordings. Live image is absolutely perfect.
Reviewing the faulty recordings it appears that the problem was there while the initial recordings were going on - as I can rewind and still get the same breakup pattern at the same point each time.
It seems to be getting worse and really can be a pain, badly breaking up the image several times in an hour long program.
I am pretty sure it must be related to the hard drive, I have treble checked all connections - they are all fine - signal strength hovers around 85%-90% for all channels on both lnbs - mostly 90%.
Mind you on playback, there is a message about "scrambled channel or channel unavailable" - which I never got before the upgrade - the image used to simply freeze and break up with no message. The message is clearly trying to be helpful but surely wrong?
The problem has only occurred since upgrading the hard drive and in all the time prior to the upgrade I had zero image break up problems.
I have decided to send back the drive to amazon tomorrow - as I I still have 2 or 3 days before the expiry of the month or so to send it back. phew..
I am puzzled though, is it really the drive and some kind of buffering before writing problem? Surely it is up to the job? The drive gets excellent reviews - should I ask for a replacement same drive because the other might be faulty - of go for a different one??
I like the look of the Samsung - SpinPoint HD103UJ as it seems quite popular on the SKY forums. Good replacement choice?.... or should I get a replacement for the original assuming it is faulty?
I'm certainly puzzled about this. If the drive is faulty why isn't everything going wrong?
Patrick
Anyway, The new drive I have is the: Western Digital WD10EADS Caviar Green 1tb
I upgraded to a 1 TB hard drive over 3 weeks ago.
The first 2 weeks were absolutely fantastic and when I installed the disk I tested it recording 2 HD recordings at the same time and by playing back one of the recording channels at the same time. It was working perfectly well - with no issues at all. Really pleased.
I had replaced it by simply taking out the old and put the new in its place. No problem there I would have thought.
However, in the last 10 days or so there has been intermittent freezing and breaking up of the image, but only during playback of recordings. Live image is absolutely perfect.
Reviewing the faulty recordings it appears that the problem was there while the initial recordings were going on - as I can rewind and still get the same breakup pattern at the same point each time.
It seems to be getting worse and really can be a pain, badly breaking up the image several times in an hour long program.
I am pretty sure it must be related to the hard drive, I have treble checked all connections - they are all fine - signal strength hovers around 85%-90% for all channels on both lnbs - mostly 90%.
Mind you on playback, there is a message about "scrambled channel or channel unavailable" - which I never got before the upgrade - the image used to simply freeze and break up with no message. The message is clearly trying to be helpful but surely wrong?
The problem has only occurred since upgrading the hard drive and in all the time prior to the upgrade I had zero image break up problems.
I have decided to send back the drive to amazon tomorrow - as I I still have 2 or 3 days before the expiry of the month or so to send it back. phew..
I am puzzled though, is it really the drive and some kind of buffering before writing problem? Surely it is up to the job? The drive gets excellent reviews - should I ask for a replacement same drive because the other might be faulty - of go for a different one??
I like the look of the Samsung - SpinPoint HD103UJ as it seems quite popular on the SKY forums. Good replacement choice?.... or should I get a replacement for the original assuming it is faulty?
I'm certainly puzzled about this. If the drive is faulty why isn't everything going wrong?

Patrick

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