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Hello,
I have an FVP 4000T 14 months old and like it except that it is so slow compared to using Win 7 Media Centre.
1) Would changing the HDD for an SSD help e.g. Crucial MX300 1TB?
2) If so, has anyone done this and if so please advise the procedure you used.
TIA
jagman1 – 1 minute ago »
I have an FVP 4000T 14 months old and like it except that it is so slow compared to using Win 7 Media Centre.
1) Would changing the HDD for an SSD help e.g. Crucial MX300 1TB?
No the problem is almost certainly not hard drive related. An SSD would of course be totally silent but the potential performance gains wouldn’t help. If you really feel you must try this, the parameter to look for in an SSD for this application is the total lifetime write capability; last time I looked Samsung Pro drives were best.
Also, when the Humax is on it’s continually writing the current programme to disk, as a buffer for rewinding to the start.
SSDs aren’t designed for that kind of usage.
BB – 14 minutes ago »
Also, when the Humax is on it’s continually writing the current programme to disk, as a buffer for rewinding to the start.
SSDs aren’t designed for that kind of usage.
A Samsung 850 Pro is designed for 80GB a day over 5 years so would have a reasonable life time providing the box wasn’t left on 24 hours a day.
This…
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/downloads/document/SSD_850_PRO_brochure.pdf
…says 40GB a day over 10 years. So 1/2 the write capacity you quoted but 2x the life. Or does that equate to 80 over 5?
BTW … you would need to buy a mounting bracket to mount the 2.5 SSD in the 3.5 space. You can get one fairly cheap.
Pollensa1946 – 49 seconds ago »
…says 40GB a day over 10 years. So 1/2 the write capacity you quoted but 2x the life. Or does that equate to 80 over 5?
The actual capacity is a fixed number of TerraBytes Written (TBW) so it doesn’t matter how you slice it up in terms of number of years; shorter number of years more GB per day. I would have thought 5 years is a reasonable life for a replacement drive in a PVR. Note my numbers were based on a 256GB drive (the cheapest) but with a 4TB drive the limit is four times as large.
NB I am NOT recommending fitting an SSD just trying to refute the argument that it isn’t feasible.
Yes, I agree on the 5 year life of a HDD. My own 1TB in the 1000S lasted almost 5 years, replaced with a 2TB for 70+ Pounds. Hardly worth bothering with an expensive SSD. Who knows where PVRs will be, feature-wise, in 5 years. M.2 PCI-e type drives?
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