Tony1A
Never going back to Sky TV. Ever!
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2013
- Messages
- 817
- Reaction score
- 517
- Points
- 93
- Age
- 58
- Location
- Somewhere In County Durham
- My Satellite Setup
- Humax HDR1100S Freesat Recorder. Medion HD satellite box with Gibertini 1m motorised dish. Triax TD78 for Freesat. Triax TD64 for Freesat to 3 rooms. 2 Panasonic Freeview+ HD recorders.
- My Location
- North-East England, UK
HI EVERYONE
For a little while I have had a 500GB laptop HDD kicking around and doing nothing, so today I opened one of my Samsung Sky HD boxes and dropped the laptop HDD into it. I did a system reset which formatted the drive......and what a surprise......a more quieter box. The HDD I tried is HGST (Hitachi I think) Z5K-500 and it worked very well indeed. The unit only pulls 700ma so that's not going draw loads from the PSU and is 5400RPM and 3.0GB/S.
These Samsung's have a fan fitted to the HDD caddy too, but I reckon by using a laptop HDD that could be eliminated as the heat generated won't be as much as with the standard full size drive.
An interesting little experiment that resulted from boredom and it worked!
For a little while I have had a 500GB laptop HDD kicking around and doing nothing, so today I opened one of my Samsung Sky HD boxes and dropped the laptop HDD into it. I did a system reset which formatted the drive......and what a surprise......a more quieter box. The HDD I tried is HGST (Hitachi I think) Z5K-500 and it worked very well indeed. The unit only pulls 700ma so that's not going draw loads from the PSU and is 5400RPM and 3.0GB/S.
These Samsung's have a fan fitted to the HDD caddy too, but I reckon by using a laptop HDD that could be eliminated as the heat generated won't be as much as with the standard full size drive.
An interesting little experiment that resulted from boredom and it worked!
