Broken hard drive

[Mark39]

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@HeathHayle wrote:

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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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[TimmyBGood]

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@HeathHayle wrote:

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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

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The change hasn't happened yet for Sky-branded channels: it's due later this month.

[rscott]

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@HeathHayle 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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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

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Why would it make fastforwarding/rewinding any faster? The speed of those is controlled by the Sky firmware, not the hard-drive.

[HeathHayle]

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@rscott wrote:

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@HeathHayle 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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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

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Why would it make fastforwarding/rewinding any faster? The speed of those is controlled by the Sky firmware, not the hard-drive.

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interesting I didnt know that I just thought it was like a computer when you copy files or access files on a SSD it works quicker so I thought that the X times is shows on a sky box that it rewinds or fastforwards would say the same but it would actually do it quicker