My Foxsat PVR is coming up to two years old and I'm on the point of returning it to John Lewis's for repair, before the warranty runs out.
First, I would like to seek the views of forum members.
Where do I begin? I have lost hours, days, even weeks of my life accessing recorded media on this machine, especially whenever I have wanted to copy files to and external hard drive.
The internal hard drive was slow to access, even when it was only half full. The more I filled it, the more it ground to a halt, frequently crashing and forcing me to restart by switching of power at the socket. I couldn't just clear space on the drive, because it took so long to copy and delete.
I got two pieces of advice from Humax. The first was, reset to factory conditions. I did that. No improvement. The second piece of advice was that I must reformat the hard drive. I suspected reformatting would not get to the root of the problem, because the PVR was extremely slow to access any of my three external hard drives (1TB each).
Well, during a week off work, I finally managed to clear most of the files off the internal drive. I was able to do this by copying to a 16GB memory stick, which I would successively copy to my PC, once it was full. Once I'd got down to below 20% of internal drive usage, access was much quicker.
HOWEVER, the machine is still sluggish in accessing the 1TB external drives, including one which is only half full.
At last count, it took me over 90 seconds to access the media list on the half-full external drive. It took 30 to 40 seconds to open or close a folder. It took 45 seconds to enter file manager. It took over 100 seconds to enter edit mode. Then, while attempting to return to normal mode (and operation that has frequently resulted in crash), the machine went into standby.
I gather from other posts to this forum, that other people archive files to external drives. Has anyone had similar problems?
Chris.
First, I would like to seek the views of forum members.
Where do I begin? I have lost hours, days, even weeks of my life accessing recorded media on this machine, especially whenever I have wanted to copy files to and external hard drive.
The internal hard drive was slow to access, even when it was only half full. The more I filled it, the more it ground to a halt, frequently crashing and forcing me to restart by switching of power at the socket. I couldn't just clear space on the drive, because it took so long to copy and delete.
I got two pieces of advice from Humax. The first was, reset to factory conditions. I did that. No improvement. The second piece of advice was that I must reformat the hard drive. I suspected reformatting would not get to the root of the problem, because the PVR was extremely slow to access any of my three external hard drives (1TB each).
Well, during a week off work, I finally managed to clear most of the files off the internal drive. I was able to do this by copying to a 16GB memory stick, which I would successively copy to my PC, once it was full. Once I'd got down to below 20% of internal drive usage, access was much quicker.
HOWEVER, the machine is still sluggish in accessing the 1TB external drives, including one which is only half full.
At last count, it took me over 90 seconds to access the media list on the half-full external drive. It took 30 to 40 seconds to open or close a folder. It took 45 seconds to enter file manager. It took over 100 seconds to enter edit mode. Then, while attempting to return to normal mode (and operation that has frequently resulted in crash), the machine went into standby.
I gather from other posts to this forum, that other people archive files to external drives. Has anyone had similar problems?
Chris.