Hi all,
Just thought after reading everyones experience on here I would make a note of mine in case anyone plans on doing the same.
I recently bought a 1TB Western Digital drive (WD10EVDS) Drive from Ebuyer (£64 at the time of writing):
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=617
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179332
I did buy originally the WD10EARS which was slightly cheaper but when I double checked that it would work with the SkyHD box I sent it back and got a new drive on order. The reason for this was that the drive was an AFD (Advanced Format Drive) which means that it works brilliant for the new operating systems like Windows Vist and Windows 7 but not so much for Windows XP and the drive has to be formatted in such a way that the sectors will be populated correctly, the same went for the Sky OS. In tech speak the drive clusters were 4k instead of the standard 512 bytes which can make a big difference to performance.
I will be intending on upgrading the drive in the SkyHD box this weekend and will report back with more details of the existing drive, new drive and the model of the box etc.
As I have done alot of research into what drives work and dont I was wondering if anyone has found a chart/website that lists models that have been tried and tested?? If not, would anyone like to contribute their findings as I was thinking of making a website to do so, i.e. Sky Box Make/Modle, Old Drive, New Drive, % error (simple yes or no maybe). The site would be searchable and links/adverts are welcomed with no login required.
I am sure a site like that would be helpful for everyone going down the same road as we all have at one stage? any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.