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DaMacFunkin
02-10-13, 18:09
Hello I've ordered one of these does anybody know if the sata is II or blazing fast III?
Thanks.
Larry-G
02-10-13, 18:21
Hello I've ordered one of these does anybody know if the sata is II or blazing fast III?
Thanks.

Not sure to be honest. I just chucked a old laptop HDD in mine and it works great.


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Rob van der Does
02-10-13, 20:28
An STB doesn't need a speedy HDD.
Sicilian
03-10-13, 04:52
SATAII is more than good enough, but SATAIII should be backwards compatible.
DaMacFunkin
03-10-13, 12:10
I know that, but there is no point paying the extra for III if it only supports II
Rob van der Does
03-10-13, 12:18
There's no point in paying for Sata III at all as the extra speed won't bring you anything an on STB, even though it's supported.
duoduo
03-10-13, 12:25
Go with the II then and save some ££, like Rob says you dont need a speedy HDD
DaMacFunkin
04-10-13, 09:25
Not even If you are recording 6 channels at once on a solo2?
Any way that's the least of my worrys , box isn't playing ( see my other post)
Rob van der Does
04-10-13, 09:35
Yep, and even more thnen 6 recording and playing.
The issue is, that most people are used to PC-use of HDD's. A PC tends to read/write many (very) small files; that's when speed is required.
An (HD-) stream on the other hand is a continuous stream, so throughput is no issue at all. Actually an HDD is hardly working when handling 6 (or more) HD-streams.

Again: HDD speed is the least of your worries (as you seem to admit yourself now). In fact you shouldn't worry about it at all.