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captainglassback
21-09-2010, 04:00 PM
The stb seems to work well when testing using a 5 min TV prog on a USB stick. Was about to buy a 1.5TB external drive for backing up PC files and to create storage for TV progs when the 320GB on the Humax Foxsat is full. Some poor ratings for many of them so can anyone recommend one (between 500GB and 2TB) that works well for them. Thanks CG
Mr Batch
21-09-2010, 07:52 PM
bump - good question. box is great but HD on 320gb goes quickly.
captainglassback
03-11-2010, 03:32 PM
Have bought a Toshiba 1.5TB. Working well so far.
gray198
03-11-2010, 06:02 PM
how do you connect it and format it??

thanks gray
captainglassback
03-11-2010, 08:32 PM
It was £70 from ama zon but looks like thay have jacked price up! It requires and has a power supply lead. Otherwise just USB in back of Foxsat. Read a lot of reviews. Mostly positive except power jack is a little loose. Plug n play. Backed up a laptop and a PC. Then left it plugged in the Foxsat. Certainly needed no formatting. A little slow to copy a prog from Foxsat to Toshiba but then that is symtematic of USB2 I suppose. Very pleased. Have since bought a Toshiba 500GB that doesn't require a power supply. Very pleased with that too.
gray198
04-11-2010, 03:24 PM
captainglassback,

thanks m8. will have a look at that

regards gray
moggyminor1966
06-01-2011, 08:34 PM
Alternatively you can easily swop the 320Gb internal hard drive with a 1TB one.

Best to use is 1TB Western Digital AV-GP 3.5" Hard Disk Drive - WD10EVDS which is designed for PVR use.

If your Humax is still under warranty then probably safer to wait till warranty has expired as you will have to break the manufacturers seal.

I know you can even put a 2TB one in but apparently can only format it once initially.

Currently can be obtained for £54.55 with free shipping for the 1 TB.
gray198
06-01-2011, 08:47 PM
Moggyminor,

how difficult is it to swap. Mine is well out of warranty so maybe worth a try.

Thanks gray
moggyminor1966
06-01-2011, 10:09 PM
Moggyminor,

how difficult is it to swap. Mine is well out of warranty so maybe worth a try.

Thanks gray

Have sent you a pm
captainglassback
04-04-2011, 02:39 PM
Recorded a HD film on Foxsat HDD. Then tried to copy over to external 1.5TB drive to free up space on Foxsat. Got message on Foxsat that it could not copy across anything above 4GB. Anyone else getting that kind of message with large HD files. (There is loads of space on the external drive).
vidjo
25-04-2011, 12:32 PM
Recorded a HD film on Foxsat HDD. Then tried to copy over to external 1.5TB drive to free up space on Foxsat. Got message on Foxsat that it could not copy across anything above 4GB. Anyone else getting that kind of message with large HD files. (There is loads of space on the external drive).

I got the same message when I tried to copy a prog to a memory stick. Think it's to do with it being FAT32 which has a 4Gb limit on file sizes. The Humax seems able to combine files to show a complete prog but you can't copy more than 4 Gb.