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Hi guys, I am curious to know how much storage you are using on your products, I would be grateful if you could answer these few questions and even pass this link on to others if you like. I don’t mind if it is a Humax product or not.
Hello Bob
Submitted Foxsat-hdr and HD FOX T2. I called the recording drive internal for the HD FOX T2 it is of course external but the form can’t record comments
Hi Bob,
If it’s of use, I can provide anonymised data for the Humax devices that use the hummypkg remote scheduling portal.
I’m not typing all of them into the survey form though 😆
af123,
If you have it then it would be wonderful. I am happy to share some of my observations if people wish.
I’m just doing some ‘futurologist’ stuff and storage is a boring but important aspect.
Bob
grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago  »Â
I called the recording drive internal for the HD FOX T2 it is of course external but the form can’t record comments
The fewer comments I have on the form the less complicated it is for me to manage the raw data! I don’t want to make a thesis out of this, just some informal numbers.
Thanks to you and everyone else, even the relatively few results I have so far have been interesting.
Thanks Barry.
bob_dvb – 25 minutes ago  »Â
af123,
If you have it then it would be wonderful.
I’ve extracted stats for 600 randomly selected Humax devices which are registered and placed them at http://hummypkg.org.uk/humaxdisk.csv
These are all freeview boxes, either HDR-Fox T2 or HD-Fox T2 which is indicated by the first column. The subsequent columns are disk used, disk size and percentage used.
Thanks af123, so the simple answer is 44.8%! (Or 46% for HDRs only).
I think people tend to keep their disks about 50% full, regardless of the size of disk : ) It is likely that they do some pro-active cleaning up once it’s over half full.
There is definitely a sense of well being that’s associated with dropping it back below 50%, although we’ve recently been able to squeeze an extra 10-20% out of the disk be removing redundant EIT packets from the stored recordings which is how I got mine down to size!
(Shaving 10GiB off my Big Bang Theory collection for example)
Added mine too Bob, I like to keep mine trim and only store what I haven’t watched, I do this with all my PVR’s!
FYI, my survey says that people believe their disk to be ~50% full.
This is interesting because it reflects fairly closely the data supplied by af123.
50% usage on my old 250GB Topfield SD PVR.
30% usage on my 320GB Humax Freesat HD + saved films and other programmes on an external 400GB USB HDD.
10% usage on my 500GB DigitalStream Freeview HD PVR.
bob_dvb – 1 hour ago »
FYI, my survey says that people believe their disk to be ~50% full.
This is interesting because it reflects fairly closely the data supplied by af123.
We optomists reckon ours are 50% Empty
bob_dvb – 1 hour ago »
FYI, my survey says that people believe their disk to be ~50% full.
This is interesting because it reflects fairly closely the data supplied by af123.
That’s also what I see if I look at all 2000+ devices that are registered with the RS portal, the mean is approximately 46% regardless of disk size.
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