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Thread: Setting up your external USB HDD with your Solo the easy way!

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    Thumbs up Setting up your external USB HDD with your Solo the easy way!

    I've started to see posts with members having problems using their external USB hard drives, so thought I'd put to the test a post a quick guide.

    For the purpose of this I'm using a portable 2.5" USB HDD with its own power supply. The HDD is a Hitachi 250GB SATA. It's very important that the external HDD has its own electric power supply.

    Guide below: -

    1. Connect to a windows PC. Go to control panel > Administrive Tools > Copumter Management > Storage > Disk Managment > Select you USB HDD, right click on it and select 'Delete Volume'. Make sure that its your USB HDD that your deleting!

    2. Connect to Solo, power up the HDD then reboot your Solo.

    3. Once rebooted press Menu on your remote > Setup > System > Harddisk > Initialization > Click ok on the selected HDD



    4. On the next screem press Red Button to initialize and wait for it to complete.



    5. Go to your PC, open a command promt and telnet to your Solo. As follows: -

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    Telnet 192.168.1.11 <<<<Use your Solo IP
    Code:
    Username = Root
    Code:
    Password = leave blank, just press enter
    6. Now create a folder in /media/usb for recording. We'll call it movie.

    Code:
    mkdir /media/usb/movie
    7. Close the command prompt and go back to your Solo.

    8. Press Menu > Setup > System > Recording paths > Highlight Defualt movie location, see below: -



    9. Press ok, then you come to a select location screen. You will see the default at the bottom is /hdd/movie. We need to change this. Press menu on your remote and select 'switch to filelist'. Now navigate to /media/usb/movie, do not click ok on movie, just highlight it and press Green button to save the location. You now have something like this: -



    10. Do the same for Timeshift location, but just choose /media/usb

    Thats it done

    Enjoy your recording with your shiney new baby VU+ Solo
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    what external hdd brand do u suggest to buy?

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    I've got this enclsure that I fitted a Hitachi SATA 250GB HDD into

    Code:
    http://www.usbnow.co.uk/Hard_Drive_Enclosures-2.5%22_Hard_Drive_Cases/c10_24/p784/Smart_Drive_2.5%22_SATA_Hard_Drive_Enclosure/product_info.html
    I've got seperate 5V PSU for powering the enclosure.

    Any USB HDD should be ok providing its got its own electric PSU.
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    i followed your steps my external hdd works fine for recording but i have problem in timeshift , could you please clarify the steps for timeshift because the recording path pictures not clear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alrufayyig View Post
    i followed your steps my external hdd works fine for recording but i have problem in timeshift , could you please clarify the steps for timeshift because the recording path pictures not clear.
    Set the timeshift location to /media/usb/
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    timeshift still not possible i think i have another issue, what do you suggeest and i can't find permanent timeshift plugin ?
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    which image are u using...
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    Quote Originally Posted by alrufayyig View Post
    timeshift still not possible i think i have another issue, what do you suggeest and i can't find permanent timeshift plugin ?
    What have you setup for your timeshift location?
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    i use vti v0.1 image , regarding timeshift location now /media/usb ,and tried media/usb/movie also i tried media/hdd and still faild, do you think because i use only samsung 100gb external hdd is not enough to start timeshift?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alrufayyig View Post
    i use vti v0.1 image , regarding timeshift location now /media/usb ,and tried media/usb/movie also i tried media/hdd and still faild, do you think because i use only samsung 100gb external hdd is not enough to start timeshift?
    Recording defo works ok?
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    worked a treat hdd needs the 5volt boost well done Sicillian

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    recording works fine but timeshift is not possible

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    what do u get when u start timeshift
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    Check all the paths, I've just tested timeshift again here and can confirm working 100%.
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