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Old 05-01-2011, 15:18
mrmarky
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Anyone tried it yet ?

I currently have a 1tb in my humax and very tempted to slap in a 2tb would it format and will it allow full access to the 2tb ?

thanks in advance.
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Old 05-01-2011, 15:26
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Yes it been done and apart from the 1GB minimum reserved for photos/music it's all available. The snag is that the hdr won't do the required partition and formatting for drives larger than 1TB you have to do it yourself. Personally I would not bother displaying a media list for over 1TB of recordings takes an age

Why not add a second 1TB externally connected by usb and archive to that.
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Old 05-01-2011, 15:46
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cheers graham downloading ubuntu as we speak, I actually thought we would lever fill up a 1TB but most of the kids stuff now take up about 50% of the box needs more space
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Old 05-01-2011, 16:02
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Anyone tried it yet ?

I currently have a 1tb in my humax and very tempted to slap in a 2tb would it format and will it allow full access to the 2tb ?

thanks in advance.
If you have not bought it yet - make sure you go for a green low power drive -scan this forum - think most like me used W.D. green drives.
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Old 05-01-2011, 16:11
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cheers graham downloading ubuntu as we speak, I actually thought we would lever fill up a 1TB but most of the kids stuff now take up about 50% of the box needs more space
If you stick a 2TB in an external drop in a sata cradle with an esata and a usb port and connect it by usb to the rear port. You can copy off a load of recordings to the external usb drive. (they will replay from there). Two advantages - no problems with using the internal power supply from the larger drive and if you run out of storage just drop in another formatted drive. With a laptop and EXT2FSD and an esata port you can connect the archive drive to a PC and access the recordings very quickly. It takes a while to shift the recordings though.
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Old 05-01-2011, 18:00
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cheers graham downloading ubuntu as we speak, I actually thought we would lever fill up a 1TB but most of the kids stuff now take up about 50% of the box needs more space
My approach is to use a NAS and a media player to keep HDR disk under control, periodicaly take films off the HDR, pass them through Handbrake to convert to mp4 and serve from the media streamer (conversion optional as the media streamer is happy with ".ts" files from HDR but cuts size to less than a half, optional advert removal with Video Redo too). DVDs have gone the same way, works well and you can then watch archived recordings and DVDs on PCs as well as using a media player.

Media Player - AC Ryan MD MIni, highly recommedned.

Roll on the next generation of HDR when I can automate this - except for ad removal anyway, I've seen programs that attempt to remove ads automatically but not seen one that works well yet, VideoRedo advertisement feature slow and error prone.
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Old 05-01-2011, 23:41
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Anyone tried it yet ?
I currently have a 1tb in my humax and very tempted to slap in a 2tb would it format and will it allow full access to the 2tb ?
thanks in advance.
I seem to remember Bobcat saying that they weren't too happy about possible problems with a 2TB upgrade although a 1TB upgrade had been found to work satisfactorily (since proved by most users). GTs solution with an external drop-in HDD seems to be the most practical.
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Old 06-01-2011, 10:49
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I upgraded mine to 2TB but had to run Linux on my laptop to partition the disk (have posted about this here before). I bought a USB-SATA adaptor so I could plug the drive into the laptop as my PC only has IDE connectors.

The problem is that the Humax Media Guide becomes incredibly slow to start up as more programmes are recorded. Mine's taking 6+ seconds to come up after pressing 'Media' - the disk is only 54% full.

In hindsight I'd only install 1TB. Though if Humax could implement proper indexing (rather than scanning through the files every time you press Media) then it would be fine.
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Old 06-01-2011, 17:03
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Thanks everyone for there advice

worked perfect now have 963hrs recording time lol chuffed to bits

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