I brought a samsung HD+ box to replace my multiroom sky+ box, so I created an image of the little endian'd sky+ using copy+ then imaged (into big endian) onto a brand new Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ), the same drive that is in my main Sky HD (thompson) box.
Had sky pair the card to the box, looked in the planner, all recordings there and chose a couple at random and they played, Initially, all looked good, however, then the box hung a few times, requiring switching off at the mains to regain control, followed by the drive spinning up and spinning down, making it difficult to browse the tv guide, followed by trying to record, the box crashing, coming back on in record, something in planner, but 0% unplayable.
Using the engineers menu, Rebuilt the planner, still no fix, did a system reset (which took 3 attempts as the box kept crashing) and still no joy, lots of spinning up and spinning down, like a hard drive reset.
So, then I tried a seagate barracuda 7200.11 1000gb drive, this wasnt even recognised by the system, saying no sky+ functions were available, so I fitted the original Pipeline HD drive (320GB) and all works, all sky+ functions, all previous recordings and no hard drive resets, so I know the box is fine.
So ... could anybody please tell me what is considered to be the best drive for the samsung box?
thanks in advance, I know I went on a bit!