Can you connect Hard Drive to Dreambox 500c

[Bugzee]

and if so, how?

Any recommendations on product and most importantly a step by step guide for this IT illiterate. Thanking you all in advance for your expertise.

[Devilfish]

You can't connect a hard drive directly to the dm500 because there is no ide interface.

The only way you can do it is by getting a LAN enclosure and putting the hdd in that. This has an ethernet connection and would connect to the dreambox via ethernet.

[horsegun]

Networked Hard Drive Size

Hello

I am trying to work a Networked Hard Drive to record to, just wondering what kind of size to purchase.

Does anyone know what sort of space a 30min program might take up, to get an idea of what size I need to buy.

Cheers

[smirnoff_rules]

about 1 gig for 30 minutes .. l have a 250 gig external drive , but remember u can use for the dream and pc stuff

[Neil]

Do you have an old PC that is too slow for windows anymore. If so make your own netwrok storage from the old PC using NASLITE 2, have a read here http://www.serverelements.com. Naslite was the best ?15 I ever spent on software.

[makroski]

Here you can find a FreeBSD based nas software FreeNAS. I used it in a pentium 166 mmx machine and it is perfect http://www.freenas.org use the link can see it.

[harky]

for the LAN EnCLoSure method? just connect the 2 and record ready to go?