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Hi all.
I’ve been a longtime user of an FVP-5000T in which the HDD appears to be starting to fail. My intention is to swap out the 1Tb HDD for a 2Tb (or larger) SSD – there are no recordings that I need to keep or transfer to a new SSD. Has anyone done this and, if so, were there any unexpected problems, especially using a larger capacity SSD? I vaugely recall reading something many years ago about there being problems using HDD drives over 2Gb but can’t remember what those problems were.
Thanks in advance.
JoMo – 2 hours ago »
My intention is to swap out the 1Tb HDD for a 2Tb (or larger) SSD – there are no recordings that I need to keep or transfer to a new SSD. Has anyone done this and, if so, were there any unexpected problems, especially using a larger capacity SSD?
A few people have used SSD drives but the advantages are fairly small. You certainly can’t use anything larger than 2TB because the FVP uses an MBR style partition table which is limited to 2TB. Any reason why you favour an SSD drive?
No reason other than I already have some spare SSDs so the only cost is that of the time it takes to swap the drives.
If the Humax is in a bedroom, you may hear the hard drive in which case an SSD would be completely silent.
If my Humax hard drive ever fails, I would certainly experiment with fitting an old used SSD at first and if successful, I would then get a new 1TB or 2TB SSD (as Martin Liddle said, anything larger than 2TB won’t work).
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