Smith said:
Well, I used search by keyword "samsung" and found:
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Maxtor 4R120L0
Maxtor 4R160L0
ST3120025ACE
ST3160022ACE
SAMSUNG SV1203N
SAMSUNG SV1604E
ST3160023AS
Maxtor TBD model
Maxtor 7Y250M0
I see here 120 GB, 160 GB and 250 GB models. What is more interesting that "TBD" model. Perhaps new 400 GB one ?
Yeah, I had seen that list as well. I have no evidence whatsoever to support this, so don't value my opinion at anything more than what you paid for it -- but I would guess that support for larger, faster drives is being added to the firmware to facilitate RMA of the customer base to faster hardware over time. Those who are having the most problems end up being swapped out to an upgraded box with a faster hard drive. At least I hope that's what they have in mind. Of course it could be that this guy at the dishmod group is full of crap since there's no reference as to where his info actually came from. So take your pick.
It just seems to me that besides a few quirks in the software, and a few things we wish worked differently, the 522's MAIN problem is dropouts and pixelization. Which I think is caused by the simple fact that some of the hard drives just aren't quite fast enough for up to two each of simultaneous recording and playback streams. That's basically four huge files it has to thrash between in a worst-case scenario--unless it's an extremely fast drive, or has a huge amount of caching memory, something is going to suffer. It would probably be easier for E* to try to fix the existing boxes with faster disk I/O than try to swap out mainboards which is basically designing a new box from scratch.
In any case, I would be curious if stonecold's procedure for the 721 would work for the 522 (basically ghosting the existing drive to a new, faster/bigger one). Anybody who tries this be sure and let us know if the performance is better.