Gigablue Quad Hard Drive size

[nsw9154]

Hello this is my 1st real Question

i was originally going to get a VU+Duo but decided to get the Gigablue Quad, at the moment on it's way from Finland

i have 3-500gig sata drives 2 that i used to use in my PC till i upgraded to 2 and 1 Terabit HD's and 1 that i took out of a Tivo box that i bought for £20 from flebay

then realized it would not work as a free view box i was originally going to put the Tivo's Western Digital in the Duo as it is already Linux - but the Gigablue only takes 2.1/2" drives

i have a 200gig 2.1/2" sata drive from a old laptop, would that be large enough to work in the Gigablue and use 2 of the others as external drives

i have 2 Samsung drives both HD501LJ's (500GB/7200rpm/16mb cache

the Western Digital is a WD500AADS/32mb cache

or would i be better of only using the 1 external drive and using the Western Digital as that has a better cache as by reading on here that speed isn't every thing

the reason i asked if the 200gig will be large enough is that i am not sure how many hours recording i will be able to get on it especially if i record a lot of High Def programs

Thanks in advance

regards norm

[Rob van der Does]

For recording the cache of a drive is of no importance at all. Nor is the RPM.

200 GB is certainly not very much for recording. As a recording is a complete TS, and compression is different for each provider, it's hard to say how many (few) hours of recording it can contain. But not much ....

[nsw9154]

Thank's for your fast reply looks like i will invest in a larger drive at a later date but will have to use the 200gb for the time being

one other question would it be feasible to set the box up to automatically record on to the External Drives if i set 2 500gb drives up, or dose it automatically record to the internal drive

thanks in advance

regards norm

[skippie]

i always use an external HDD, got one on the quad of 2TB and works like a charm, never a problem recording several shows at the same time.
I once tried recording 8 shows simultaneously and no problem.

[nsw9154]

Thanks skippie do you have a internal drive fitted or is it only the External drive

regards norm

[Rob van der Does]

You can use both an internal and an external HDD for recordings.
The default recording location can be set in the settings (e.g. to the internal HDD), but every timer can have it's own destination.

[nsw9154]

Thank you Rob that has explained my question and it's nice to know that i have the option to bypass the internal drive and just record on the External one

regards norm

[skippie]

yes, i don't have an internal one, only external HDD

[marty]

If you do use an EXT-HDD try and use eSATA

[nsw9154]

yes, i don't have an internal one, only external HDD

Thank you skippie that's good to know

regards norm

[nsw9154]

If you do use an EXT-HDD try and use eSATA

Thank you marty that's another good thing to know, but are they expensive

regards norm

[marty]

Thank you marty that's another good thing to know, but are they expensive

regards norm

Not at all, just buy an empty HDD box that has eSATA. They are about £10-15 and stick your HDD in it.
Why not fit an internal HDD?

[nsw9154]

i intend to fit an internal 200gig for the time being until i can afford a 1 or 2 TB internal drive and i already have 2-500gig sata drives in external cases with separate power supplies that i used to use on my PC but i think that 5TB is enough for the PC

norm

[BubbleBalls]

Internal HDD 1tb from MemoryC is about 64 euros. They also have P&P 1tb for the same price - handy to remove the HDD (for the Quad) and swap in that 200GB drive for flexible storage.


Tapatālker

[nsw9154]

i received an email today to tell me that they are out of stock and hopefully they should get a new batch next week strange that they sent the email after paypal had taken the money out of my account so i am probably looking at another 2 weeks = so i saw that they have VU+Solo 2's for about 320 euros with shipping probably work out at about £270 so i have asked if they can replace the Giga quad for the Solo2 and invoice me the difference, but if they are out of stock as well i might just ask for a refund and get one from WOS,which i should have gone with in the 1st place