My sky plus box is fekked. Looks like its the hard drive, cant pause or play back, record etc etc although still getting tv.

Its out of warranty so its down to me to fix it.

From having a dig aroud a need a disk that spins up pretty quick otherwise i hae to master restet it everytime i unplug it.

Anyone swapped their disk? any recommendation as to which hard disk to buy? Are they all the same size(physical dimensions)

 

Cheers

Some useful info here:

 

http://www.geocities.com/skypluswss/hdd.htm

i did all our sky+ boxes when we first got them m8

and im sure we used THEN 7600 maxtors

and NEVER had a problem with them, hardest part was getting the star screws out, otherwise its a doddle

we now have h/d boxes so can't check to see exactly what drives i used

 

just to add i seem to remember they were noisy ISH

 

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=156344

I did a Sky+ for somebody. Dead easy, just wack the drive in and it takes care of everything itself. Much easier than a TiVo.

 

It is worth getting the heavy duty type drive, ie ones that are intended to be run 24x7. They will last longer.

and avoid western digital drives, they are fookin noisy!

fixed!!! bought a hitachi 250 gig from pc world, 55 quid. Couple of system resets and a software update and were up and running. Fingers crossed!

just peed off now i've lost the last 2 episodes of 'the unit' and a couple of films i aint watched. On the plus side shes some desperate housewives!! woo hooo :)

she's lost some desperate housewives, that should read