schneid wrote:
Popsie wrote:
Allen13331 wrote:
I just looked up the specs for a randomly selected Seagate hard drive. Parked it was listed as 368 g's and operating it was listed at 68 g's. Clearly having the drives parked( turned off) is much safer.
Also remember that Directv uses standard hard drives and not laptop hard drives ( which can handle more abuse). Unless necessary unplugged is safer for transporting a DVR.
Replace the internal drive by plugging a solid state drive into the SATA port on the back of the directv box. Then you can have more storage capacity if you choose to, and you won't have to worry about g's :)
We are talking DirecTV here. DirecTV axillary drives are eSATA and replace the internal drive so they are not add-on storage. I think current drives range from 320gb for an HR20 to 1TB for a Genie. You need a housing too with a power supply.
Looks like 300gb plus drives start a little over $300 on Amazon. Seems doable but expensive. If me, I'd swap out the internal drive. Not that hard if you know/have the secret keys to the kingdom. Got kind of hard starting with the HR24.
I'd do some reading. Search SatGuysUS and DBSTalk. Seem to work but one guy says the temp is too low and it fails on his box. You can buy 3-4 1TB regular drives for the price of one SSD.
The point of the Solid State Drive is to avoid any possibility of head crashes while keeping the unit powered on while driving down the road in order to keep from losing the ability to play/replay TV shows that have been recorded on your DVR (resetting). In other words REPLACE the crash-able internal drive (not to add storage - although you can get a larger drive if you want), and the easiest way to do that is to plug in an external SSD int the port labeled "SATA" (at least on my box).
