What is the lowdown on the USB ports and drives?

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  • keveen
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    • Dec 2014
    • 4

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    What is the lowdown on the USB ports and drives?

    OPenbox V8S

    I see there are a number of important facts about USBs that are not stated when buying a box.

    Someone posted that only the Ralink RT5370 chipset works. Is that correct? So that is why my USB dongle does not work!
    I think thebox only records onto FAT 32 partitions, not NTFS?
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    What is the difference between the front and back USB ports?
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    The back one seems to be higher powered? If I plug in my USB hard drive it only works on the back port.
    If I have 2 drives plugged in it seems hit and miss if both of them are recognised?
    (Correction: Yes only one hard drive is seen by Media Player but now the Front port A is recognising every USB drive and loading the xmltv file)
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    Does the speed of the USB card or Hard drive make a difference?
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    I have 3 USB hard drives, 3 USB sticks and a variety of SD cards! collected over the years...
    I have a slow 62GB cheapo drive I bought on Ebay but it does record HD video from the back port. But I think it is not quite as perfect as my fast drive. Need to experiment more.


    Anything else we need to know? I know I had problems with the reported time when using xmltv on one hard drive which disappeared when I used an unrecorded drive? Bizarre.
    Last edited by keveen; 16 December, 2014, 20:16.
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