Recording & LNB

[neilaj8]

Hi All,

HELP
Pretty new to this so please bear with me....

I have a DM800 Dreambox HD and want to record, could you please tell me what a good (preferably) cheapish hard drive I would need to purchase? There are soooooooo many and im not sure what spec it would need. I have also ran in an additonal cable for another box but my Raven BJ-21 dish has only a single socket in the LNB, would anyone know what dual/quad LNB's would suit this dish & is it easy to program?

thanks in advance

[Rodbouy]

Any cheap laptop HDD should do.

I have a cheap 80gb and had a old 40gb working fine.

[neilaj8]

would i not need to purchase an external hard drive?
and would it not need to be more like 1TB in size?

[Rodbouy]

Thats all down to preference.

All down to how much you record and want to store.

[neilaj8]

if i was to purchase a hard rive, would you know what it would need to be?

[Rodbouy]

What do you mean?

Just pick a 2.5" sata HDD to the size you want.

Then just install it.

Or if you want just use a ext hdd.

If you want to use things like timeshift then you need to format the ext hdd to ext3.

I use internal HDD for recordings and a usb stick for picons and epg.

[neilaj8]

Thanks

does the external hard drive need to be a sata? do you know anything about LNB's?