Thread: HR2x / HR34 External Hard Drive FYI/Support (eSATA)

Originally Posted by ramy

What I want to know, is can you keep switching between the external and internal drives or does it want to move stuff from the internal to the external and shut off the internal permenately?

You can switch, it just isn't convient. You must power down the HR20 and plug/unplug the drive, then cold reboot.

And everyone knows the HR20 doesn't boot quickly

Originally Posted by masterdeals

It uses some linux format. When you plug it into the HR20 and boot, the HR20 automatically formats the drive clean for it's system. You can't read it on windows, etc.

There is no reason to use a 250gb drive, as it is equal to what is in the system already, or possibly smaller. If smaller it won't work at all. If equal, it might work, but you would see no storage gain.

Unless he has the internal drive full and has another one sitting around he wants to use !

Jimbo

Originally Posted by Smith, P.

When and where you got the 1TB disk ? What price you did pay for it ?

newegg.com, 06/11/07, $399.99.

Who want 1 TB disk ? Fry's have it on sale - just $389.99.
Hitachi Deskstar SATA/300 HDD.

Plain wrong on a few counts !

Originally Posted by masterdeals

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You can't read it on windows, etc.
->Yes, you can - use UFS Explorer.
There is no reason to use a 250gb drive, as it is equal to what is in the system already, or possibly smaller.
->Current disk is 320 GB size.
If smaller it won't work at all.
->Plain 160 GB disk works OK.
If equal, it might work,
->It will works.
but you would see no storage gain.
->Correct.

Also, there are three partitons on internal 320 GB disk:
- 0.5 GB - SWAP
- 15 GB - system logs, etc; XFS type
- 300 GB - RAW partitions with recordings.

What is the GB to HD Hours recorded equation? Earlier poster referred to 100hours HD with 750GB drive...is that a hard, fast rule? Obviously the SD takes up less space than HD, so it could vary. Also, how much space are we going to see saved when D* goes all (or mostly all) MPEG4?

Its definitely all over the board for time based on source. An OTA and MPEG2 HD take up more room then the MPEG4 HD programs. I read its 50 hours for MPEG4 HD at the 300 GB drives so I would expect is more like 35 hours for OTA and MPEG2 HD. So a 750 GB drive should give you something like 125 hours of MPEG4 HD. Just like MPG stats, actually results will vary.

Just tested Hitachi 1 TB as internal disk - same size for first two partitions, last one got a rest - 916 GB.

EDIT. Windows shows partitions' size in MB.

Originally Posted by Smith, P.

Just tested Hitachi 1 TB as internal disk - same size for first two partitions, last one got a rest - 916 GB.

EDIT. Windows shows partitions' size in MB.

This is an internal, correct ??
Do you use an internal and buy a enclosure for it, it still has to have a eSATA connection to fit the rec , you still cannot use a USB, as I am finding the majority of them use Is this info correct ?
I was under the impression that it had to be an External drive, with a sata connection.

I understand that the sata connection is much faster, probably why they don't want you to use the USB.

Jimbo