two hard drives - advisable to get an extra cooling fan ?

jasonwatkins

Well it all proved to be a waste of time due to me having an IDE connector and the hard drive from the Sky box being SATA .. and me not having any SATA leads ..

Grrrrrr ...

Ah well, might just stick the drive up on ebay instead of the Sky+ box itself ...

spg_SCOTT

Not necessarily...you could just put it in an enclosure...and then use it as an external hard drive. I did that with the hard drive from my old laptop. Works fine

320Gb is a decent size to have as well, mine is only 80...

JasX

jasonwatkins wrote: »

Well it all proved to be a waste of time due to me having an IDE connector and the hard drive from the Sky box being SATA .. and me not having any SATA leads ..

Or you could hop onto ebay/google and pick up a PCI/PCIe SATA I/O card for £5-£15 and use that, quick ebay search

Sata II / PCIe for £5
SATA I / PCI for £4
SATA II / PCI for £15

SATA II supports 300 MBps
SATA I supports 150 MBPS
(a single hard drive limits you for sustained reads/writes to about 110 MBps in any case)

check if you have any spare PCI or PCIe slots?

jasonwatkins

i could always replace the drive in the V+ box - that's only 160gb .. although I know there are issues with the T's & C's and the box being owned by Virgin with that one, so may leave well alone.

An enclosure might be an idea .. i'll decide ..

Think the Sky+ box has had it though

I was quite amazed at how much dust and crap was inside the machine though - i hadn't realised it could get that bad.

Cleaned it out as best I could and have just run HD Tune to see that the temperature is now 32 degrees - instead of 36 !

JasX

jasonwatkins wrote: »

i could always replace the drive in the V+ box - that's only 160gb .. although I know there are issues with the T's & C's and the box being owned by Virgin with that one, so may leave well alone.

plus issues with the operating system on the drive that might need transferring too, probably possible but i'd hunt for a 'how to' hack/butcher a V box first to see how difficult it is.

Am planning to do a home upgrade to my apply TV at some point but I need to partition the drive into a particularly awkward configuration defined by apple

jasonwatkins

JasX wrote: »

plus issues with the operating system on the drive that might need transferring too, probably possible but i'd hunt for a 'how to' hack/butcher a V box first to see how difficult it is.

There's a thread on digital spy where a guy claims he's successfully upgraded his Samsung with a 1TB drive.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1123109

Although it's a bit convoluted with having to clone the original drive.

another option might be to buy a media player caddy for the drive. i already have a bog-standard iomega screenplay media player, but I think if you just go for the caddies alone, you can get some that actually have a better overall spec.

Something like this for example ..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emprex-ME1-V2-Media-Player-Recorder/dp/tech-data/B001T0HEY0/ref=de_a_smtd