"Adrian C" wrote in message

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.

Interesting phrase - consumer hard drive.

In a PC, their
dependancy on service is less, as the user should have
(if used) built in features to avoid data loss.

True of any hard drive in any application where the data is other than
transient.

How do PVRs recover TV programmes from failed hard drives.
Answer: They don't.

Neither do PCs. The whole idea is to back critical data *before* the drive
fails.

A Maxtor hard drive is _not_ the best choice for a PVR.

Why not?

You have been saved grief Keith, by an unseen hand ;-)

Moral of the story - never fail to backup important data that lives on a
hard drive.

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

IME Samsungs fail about as well as anything.

400GB HD400LD

Or Seagate / Hitachi.

So why the grudge against Maxtor?