Broken hard drive

[Stacey291089]

Hi I have done the reset and full system reset and the hard drive is still saying its broke its telling me to contact sky or upgrade for a sky q box

[caesarome]

As we are customers here if you want to upgrade to Sky Q you will need to call Sky.

150 is the free number to use from a Sky Mobile or Sky Talk phone otherwise under "Need more help ?" link at the bottom of the page on this link is the number to call Sky on:

https://www.sky.com/help/home

[Annie+UK]

Please Note: Sky+ is now a legacy service that Sky are winding down

Unless you already have Sky Protect Insurance, you'll need to find a second hand box if you don't want sky Q

[trickyoneup]

You can easily replace a broken hard drive with a SSD. I did this 3 years ago, still going strong.

[Annie+UK]

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@trickyoneup wrote:

You can easily replace a broken hard drive with a SSD. I did this 3 years ago, still going strong.

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Cheaper and easier (Plug'n'play) to get a second hand box

[HeathHayle]

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@trickyoneup wrote:

You can easily replace a broken hard drive with a SSD. I did this 3 years ago, still going strong.

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SSD in a hard drive recorder interesting may I ask you does it make fastforwarding and rewinding any faster and because SSD has limited read/write doesnt using one in a hard drive recorder mean it wont last very long because its constantly read/writing

[Mark39]

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@Annie+UK wrote:

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@trickyoneup wrote:

You can easily replace a broken hard drive with a SSD. I did this 3 years ago, still going strong.

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Cheaper and easier (Plug'n'play) to get a second hand box

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Definitely. From the reports I've seen, Sky+HD boxes aren't that easy to get into.

[HeathHayle]

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@Mark39 wrote:

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@Annie+UK wrote:

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@trickyoneup wrote:

You can easily replace a broken hard drive with a SSD. I did this 3 years ago, still going strong.

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Cheaper and easier (Plug'n'play) to get a second hand box

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Definitely. From the reports I've seen, Sky+HD boxes aren't that easy to get into.

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no their not thats another reason I use SD boxes but it is doable you just need to take your time and do it when you not rushed

[Annie+UK]

SD boxes are obsolete tech as Sky and other channels are moving to the DVB-S2 protocol that your boxes cannot process

[trickyoneup]

I decided to fit a SSD because this was my 2nd sky+ box hard drive failure in the space of 12 months. The 2nd box was bought on ebay so that drive could have been on its way out before I got it.

The fast forward / reverse is the same as using a hard drive.

Yep I know there is a limited amount of times you can write to each segment on the SSD.

Most SSD,s fail on not being able to write to them, anything already saved to them is usually still readable. Which would allow you to copy onto a new SSD all your recordings.

[Annie+UK]

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@trickyoneup wrote:

I decided to fit a SSD because this was my 2nd sky+ box hard drive failure in the space of 12 months. The 2nd box was bought on ebay so that drive could have been on its way out before I got it.

The fast forward / reverse is the same as using a hard drive.

Yep I know there is a limited amount of times you can write to each segment on the SSD.

Most SSD,s fail on not being able to write to them, anything already saved to them is usually still readable. Which would allow you to copy onto a new SSD all your recordings.

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That sounds easy but the filesystem of a sky box is not that straight forward for copying as encryption is used, in the past you had to use special software (not sure if that is available any more)

[HeathHayle]

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@trickyoneup wrote:

I decided to fit a SSD because this was my 2nd sky+ box hard drive failure in the space of 12 months. The 2nd box was bought on ebay so that drive could have been on its way out before I got it.

The fast forward / reverse is the same as using a hard drive.

Yep I know there is a limited amount of times you can write to each segment on the SSD.

Most SSD,s fail on not being able to write to them, anything already saved to them is usually still readable. Which would allow you to copy onto a new SSD all your recordings.

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interesting thanks for the info if the rewind and fastforward are the same I still stick to HDD

[HeathHayle]

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@Annie+UK wrote:

SD boxes are obsolete tech as Sky and other channels are moving to the DVB-S2 protocol that your boxes cannot process

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mine are still working for what I need them for

[HeathHayle]

please delete

[HeathHayle]

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@Annie+UK wrote:

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@trickyoneup wrote:

I decided to fit a SSD because this was my 2nd sky+ box hard drive failure in the space of 12 months. The 2nd box was bought on ebay so that drive could have been on its way out before I got it.

The fast forward / reverse is the same as using a hard drive.

Yep I know there is a limited amount of times you can write to each segment on the SSD.

Most SSD,s fail on not being able to write to them, anything already saved to them is usually still readable. Which would allow you to copy onto a new SSD all your recordings.

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That sounds easy but the filesystem of a sky box is not that straight forward for copying as encryption is used, in the past you had to use special software (not sure if that is available any more)

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please delete