Well my last post was about getting the Maxtor onetouch4 750 but that didnt work as i got black screens and basically lost everything i moved to that hard drive.
Now i got a:
Vantec Nexstar hard drive dock (link is a web review)and Western Digital Caviar SE16 500gb
the nexstar cost me $40 and the hard drive cost me $90.00. I thought maybe smaller hard drive might give me better performance and be more reliable. I maybe wrong but that's why i went with a smaller drive.
What i thought was good about this setup is all i have to do is pop in hard drives, as well i can get another hard drive for my computer back ups and with a sata 2 connection. the nexstar also has an on off button and can handle 2.5 hard drives up to 1TB
the verdict
so far it works, i have noticed that fast forwarding at 300X was smother than the seagate onetouch so i am feeling more confident that this is a better solution. SD looks good and so does HD.
The specs on the hard drive are 16mb cache 7200 rpm. I have a 622 receiver.
I will update if this fails but i am at least feeling more confident, and in the long run this is extremely more versatile solution.
I am thinking any usb solution is only as good as the receiver doesn't break as you cant move these hard drives to other receivers and watch the shows. But i am sure some one will crack this problem once they encounter it.
I was wondering does anyone know what hard drive dish use in their receivers? (I did try a search)