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Foxsat HDR HD upgrade
Advice needed on the best current 1TB HD replacement for my 350gb Foxsat HDR. The Western Digital one is now no longer available. Thanks
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Rather than or as well as replacing the HDD you may be in interested in this new feature being included with Raydon's modded firmware:-
http://www.avforums.com/forums/frees...interface.html |
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Advice needed on the best current 1TB HD replacement for my 350gb Foxsat HDR. The Western Digital one is now no longer available. Thanks
See Here http://www.humaxdirect.com/product.asp?ProdRef=10109 Look around the web to get it cheaper |
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Thanks joshua_welby & gomezz for your replies.
It wasn't a replacement set I was looking for, it was a replacement HD. I didn't word my request accurately, sorry! |
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Thanks joshua_welby & gomezz for your replies.
It wasn't a replacement set I was looking for, it was a replacement HD. I didn't word my request accurately, sorry! |
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Advice needed on the best current 1TB HD replacement for my 350gb Foxsat HDR. The Western Digital one is now no longer available. Thanks
http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard...ku=ST1000VM002 |
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I'll get it right eventually... promise
I want a replacement 1TB HDD.to replace the 350GB HDD that is now fitted in my Foxsat HDR. Thanks davemurgatroyd edit Thanks coulrophobe |
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Here is the WD comparison chart:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=150 |
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Here is the WD comparison chart:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=150 Thanks Bob_Cat very useful. |
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I recently purchased a 500Gb Foxsat-HDR, and was also thinking about upgrading the hard drive to 1Tb.
However, I am advised that the Foxsat-HDR requires a SATA 2 hard drive to work correctly, but these generally are no longer available. Instead, in buying a modern SATA 3 hard drive replacement - something like the WD AV-GP WD10EURX 1Tb - a jumper in pins 5 and 6 is required to make them work in the Foxsat-HDR. A pack of 50 jumper pins is available from Maplin for a couple of quid. |
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Which drives are currently more reliable Seagate or WD?
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Humax buys both brands, if either had a failure rate that actually measured we wouldn't buy. I hear lots of people who say they have experience of one brand or another failing, but in our world disk failures are big business and we haven't seen anything anomalous.
Incidentally, I once calculated the theoretical storage capacity of our European stockpile of disks, commercial sensitivities prevent me from disclosing a number but needless to say
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I fitted a WD10EURX 1TB drive to mine a couple of months ago, just need a jumper for pins 5 & 6 and it's working perfectly. A very easy swap.
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Can I also add that the Seagate ST1000VM002 1TB works perfectly. (Don't be suprised if the box has to initialise it twice for some strange reason, but after that it has been perfect for months.)
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Thanks for that Chippy, need to upgrade my 320GB HD soon. How quick is the transfer of recording via the ftp method with custom firmware anyone. Also would it be possible to transfer via crossover cable connected to by pc/laptop with the same ip range and to do a ftp transfer?
Or has anyone tried cloning the drive via ghost, Paragon drive copy(which supports all linux partitions & then restore on new drive) Too many questions
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Thanks for that Chippy, need to upgrade my 320GB HD soon. How quick is the transfer of recording via the ftp method with custom firmware anyone. Also would it be possible to transfer via crossover cable connected to by pc/laptop with the same ip range and to do a ftp transfer?
Or has anyone tried cloning the drive via ghost, Paragon drive copy(which supports all linux partitions & then restore on new drive) Too many questions ![]() |
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Thanks Graham, was thinking about the usb sata cradle option. I find the usb copy is slow though.
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Thanks Graham, was thinking about the usb sata cradle option. I find the usb copy is slow though.
ftp is a bit faster but depends on how quick your network is. If you want the fastest way to copy the recordings after the new drive is formatted remove it. Connect the old drive to a PC (Use EXT2FS) if you want to use windows and copy the contents of the video folder in partition 3. Connect the new drive (enable write if using EXT2FS) and copy the files to the same partition on the new HDD. Of course if you can connect both drives you can copy the files directly. TIP If you don't use the Music/Photo partition use format again after install to reduce it to minimum size if 1GB (it's still large enough to run the CF). |
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I put the old drive in a USB caddy and copied them all over using File Manager on the Humax. It took flipping ages. But you can select all the files in a folder, hit <copy> and go off and do something else for an hour or so, and then come back and do the next folder. I guess it took about a day whilst working from home. Pita but its done now.
I did think about using a PC running Linux, but I wasn't 100.00% confident I'd get the source and destination paths the right way around! (Being a Linux numpty and all). |
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I did think about using a PC running Linux, but I wasn't 100.00% confident I'd get the source and destination paths the right way around! (Being a Linux numpty and all).
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My kitchen HDR kept rebooting at random (original hard drive).
A new 1Tb WD10EZRX with a jumper on pins 5&6 seems to have done the trick. |
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