What External Hard Drive Is Working For You?

[avaghela]

Seagate USB External Drive (320GB) with Sonicview Elite 360 works well

[Crabs97]

I'm running the SimpleTech FV-U35/500 with my SV8000. Just make sure you remove safely when updating new bin or you can screw up the power supply and have to get a new box or send old one in to get fixed without factory bin on it. I even used it to record when the freezing problems were plaguing the stbs and it recorded without missing any of the program unlike trying to watch it live

[sava_m]

LaCie 750Gb hard drive with Sonicview 8000 HD working flawlessly.
Sava

[sxWolf]

buuut read:

Originally Posted by hawgy

Compatible USB 2.0 External Hard Drives
• Power supply is required if hard drive power consumption is greater than 500mA
• Multiple partitions without security software on the first partition
• File system must be FAT32

#1 How can we know if a particular drive has "security software" on 1st partition?

#2 Are those reporting on Simpletech 1TB (Duo Pro model) using the Raid 0 or Raid 1 config?
>or are all 1TB testers using the newer "non-duo" versions...

Thanks all for sharing

[HoppyTwo]

Hey guys I have a USB 2.0 Western Digital Passport 250 GB drive. Been using it since May or June it was purchased for my PC's but when I needed a drive for the PVR I tried it and it has worked great No Problem..... It is 3 inches wide, 5 long and half inch thick. That is it: light, portable, fast and reliable. There is no power port on it only USB. It was great for my Laptop and desktops etc and now for my 360P....

[bob1cat]

comstar 500 3.5

[KP4_2007]

I have a Seagate USB External Drive 500 Gb and works fine on my SV-360 Elite.

[SillyGully]

I used a Seagate FreeAgent 160GB External and it worked recording one show, then got corrupted and seized to work ever again.

Going to try Simple Tech next.

[jkcon]

I have finally upgraded from my previous post (8gb flash drive) to a beautiful 1TB WD MyBook and I gotta say it has given me excellent results. It comes in FAT32 format out of the box so I just plugged it in. At first it would recognize it but would not tell me how much space was available and when I went to record it would say it was not formatted. I struggled for hours my receiver would not scan or format it. Finally I hook the HDD to my laptop and formatted it to NTFS. Then I hooked it back up to my receiver and BAMM!!! the receiver said that the drive needed to be formatted so I did just that and from that day forth it has not failed me ounce. OH by the way I have this HDD hooked up to my just as equally wonderful SV8000 HD V2 with a USB (extra USB in the back with switch in the front flap to allow use of bout ports) and fan (pulls in twice the air with 0 noise whatsoever) mod. It works just as good on my SV360 also. By the way I record things all night on it and neither the HDD or receiver have gave me any problems.

[SillyGully]

JKcon, you mentioned "the receiver said that the drive needed to be formatted so I did just that ".

On the SV 360 Elite, it prompts for a format, what did you chose, EXT... or FAT32?

Thnxs