hard drive for ex6000sd

[thedon2211]

what are the limitations of hard drive for ex6000sd.
ie. whats the max size, do 5400 and 7200rpm drives work ok,
does it have to be ide, or do sata 1 and sata 2 drives work aswell.
never had eurovox before used to dbox2.
any help
thanks

[gadgetfiend]

You do know the hdd connects via USB right ? i cant imagine it therefore having any limitations other than for larger drives (excess of 500gb)I would probably recommend that they have their own psu and are not usb powered. I might just be havering though thats just my own thoughts.

[thedon2211]

You do know the hdd connects via USB right ? i cant imagine it therefore having any limitations other than for larger drives (excess of 500gb)I would probably recommend that they have their own psu and are not usb powered. I might just be havering though thats just my own thoughts.

yes i do know its usb.
prob get around 250gb, its the other questions i really need to know.
thanks mate

[gadgetfiend]

im using an IDE 120gb drive but see no reason why it wont support sata dont have 1 to try though.

[smoggy]

I don't know personally but I have seen a flashing guide that states the max drive size is 320gb

[satsmo]

Was it this one smoggy? It was passed onto me, but looks like a supplier add on doc, given it says box "comes flashed".

Tests were conducted up to 320GB on bus powered drives, but I have also tried a WD 500GB powered drive and it works perfectly well so far.

[gadgetfiend]

My son wants 1 off these for xmas and i was going to get him a 1tb powered drive as well as he is a mad movie downloader so if anyone has a 1tb one and can try it for me i would be obliged.

[smoggy]

Was it this one smoggy? It was passed onto me, but looks like a supplier add on doc, given it says box "comes flashed".

Tests were conducted up to 320GB on bus powered drives, but I have also tried a WD 500GB powered drive and it works perfectly well so far.

yes thats the one satsmo

I did have some doubts thats why I put I didn't know personally
thanks for the extra info, much appreciated

[satsmo]

My son wants 1 off these for xmas and i was going to get him a 1tb powered drive as well as he is a mad movie downloader so if anyone has a 1tb one and can try it for me i would be obliged.

Sorry I had to borrow one so could not answer earlier.

I tried a powered WD My Book 1 TB. I tested a 1 hour TS from the box and both recording and playback were fine. The drive was empty and I had formatted it to FAT32 beforehand.

I transferred across approximately 250GB of movies, (payback for borrowing it ), to the drive so it wasn't full by any means. But good enough for test purposes I hope.

I converted a couple of avi movies to MPEG-2 and again playback was perfect on the EX6000.

[gadgetfiend]

thanks for that m8 i appreciate it.

[satsmo]

No bother although getting through 1TB of movies will be quite a feat for your young lad

[gadgetfiend]

once converted to mpeg2 he should get about 250 movies on it trust me he'll have that many d/led for the end of january....

[satsmo]

I know I have a son doing exactly the same thing. I blame the parents for introducing him to certain servers

[gadgetfiend]

monkey see monkey do m8....