hard drive
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2.5" sata, i bought a 500 GB one as i'd never fill it even with the HD recordings, right now i have about 23 hours worth of recordings (not all HD) on that drive & i still have 413 GB free. If you do any downloading you could also upload thiose movies to the hard drive (XviD, x264) to view them.
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cheers mate so ill only need a small one really as i dont plan to record that much maybe a game or two.
cheers mate i was hoping to stream films from pc to it but not that far into it yet!
many thanks
Games? Do you mean movies?
Streming is easy to setup but you should be able to play most movies directly on the 800SE model - the older model didn;t support divx, xvid hence the need to stream.
Cheers
Yes you can use it for other stuff. I have a 2TB external drive connected to my Dm800SE. On it I have my music collection, ripped CDs & DVDs as well as space to record programmes.
If you have your DM on your home network you can also use the DM+disk as a NAS and have the drive visible as a networked drive for other machines to read and/or write. I have mine set as an NFS drive for my Linux machine, I'm told you can set it as a shared drive for other operating systems.
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grabar63
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Hello I have just tried to fit a sata hard drive, and its failed to create partition, tried it twice, its a Hitachi 3.0 gb/s, 5v ,700ma. 500gb, 5400rpm, 8mb cache. Have I got the wrong one, if so which one should i get? Also been told there is now a shortage of drives due to floods in Thailand? first time ive tried to fit one, its a new box HD800 SE SIM, Thanks For Help
Sometimes you need to format them on your pc first m8
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i'm on win xp and its ntfs, is that ok for linux? I did'nt think it was?
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Hi thanks i'll give it a try later, nothing else is working.
grabar63
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Hello formated the hard drive to fat 32, but dm800 still wanted to initialise the drive when it was re installed, so I let it try again and it came up with error :, Mkfs Failed, Came out of that and tried again and came up with error :, Harddrive failed to initialise, so I've given up now, the software on box is russian image would updating image maybe? repair it? plugged drive into usb also, using a drive adapter box, but it still wants to initiallise the drive, can any one help? Thank you for any ideas or help, Best regards Gr
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There seem to be a variety of bugs in the 800se clone dreamboxes. I have one which will not keep time which makes it impossible to record on timer. The other keeps time and records ok but loses connection with esata 1 TB hard drive on playback. I have searched high and low used various images to no avail. Would I buy them again definately not. I have a dreambox 7000 since 2004 and never had a problem with it and still running but no high definition
grabar63
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Hi the hard drive seems fine? computer sees it ok in docking station, and it did the formating ok, I wandered if a sata 1 would be better, but the faster sata drives are supposed to be backwards compatable, so im not sure, will have to wait till monday now, to get set up with lap top etc, never flashed one of these, hope i don't brick it. Cheers I'm off to watch rovers and chelski this afternoon with grand kids, so it will have to wait. regards Gr
