buying a HDD for a EX5000 PVR

[randallflagg]

I got a 5000PVR from m8 and just found out that it can be set up to record TV and act like a Sly+ box. Is this true ? Do I need to buy a HDD to make this happen and if so does anyone have any suggestions.
Go easy on the technical jargon as I'm not too familiar with it.
Thanks in advance

[Bren100]

Your looking for a 2.5 inch laptop hard drive. They are cheap enough to buy, installation is handy too.

[randallflagg]

Simple as that ?

[randallflagg]

would it be possible to hook it up to an external hard drive ?

[stedoc]

It may be possible with the correct 2.5inch hard drive cable but it's gonna luck ugly with cables running out of the front of you cable box and you may have problems with the firmware not recognising your drive, your better off with sticking to an internal drive no bigger than 120gb

[fearlessimon]

I got a 5000PVR from m8 and just found out that it can be set up to record TV and act like a Sly+ box. Is this true ? Do I need to buy a HDD to make this happen and if so does anyone have any suggestions.
Go easy on the technical jargon as I'm not too familiar with it.
Thanks in advance

i have ex5000 with seagate (120gb) hard drive some people have problems with other makes of hdd on the box, also you can only record the channel your watching sometimes can change to another couple of channels on the same fequency while recording...hope this helps

[randallflagg]

Thanks to all - Seagate 120GB internal it is !!

[johnboy1974]

its just a basic recording unit mate nothing at all like sky plus, ie it cant record entire series of stuff unless you manually record the entire series. just like a seperate pvr