"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
"Keith G" wrote in message
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Having just posted (at length) about buying a PVR to use with a
'spare' 300 GB HDD in an external USB box that I have here, I have
*walked through* its sodding power lead and sent it flying! Now it
(the HDD itself) goes like this when I switch it on:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Hard%20Disk.mp3


Just as well you killed it ;-)

The use of consumer hard drives in PVR and other media equipment (e.g.
iPod Classic) is probably the most "mission critical" use these items
get. In a PC, their dependancy on service is less, as the user should
have (if used) built in features to avoid data loss. How do PVRs
recover TV programmes from failed hard drives. Answer: They don't.

A Maxtor hard drive is _not_ the best choice for a PVR. You have been
saved grief Keith, by an unseen hand ;-)


'See Good In Bad', eh..?? I'll take that, Adrian - a little *positivity*
goes a long way in my book! :-)

(It knocked the shine off my day, I can tell you - no spare HDD and I
wouldn't have waved a braincell at the PVR!!)



Find yourself a Samsung drive. Nice and quiet, and my TiVo has had
Samsumgs running 24/7 for years.

250GB HA250JC
300GB HD300LD
400GB HD400LD

Or Seagate / Hitachi.


Hmm, the only other HDD I've had go tits-up (on its own) in the past was
a 'Deskstar' when they were branded IBM - Seagate have always been good
but a *quiet* Samsung sounds tempting. (Swim can bloody pay for it...)