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Pollensa1946 – 4 hours ago »
Pollensa1946 – 2 hours ago »
My experience of that drive from Amazon is not a good one…It arrived in a Jiffy bag enclosed in the usual Amazon cardboard wrapper used for books/CD’s etc. Completely inadequate for a HDD..
As I said. My experience from Amazon. My feedback to Amazon was that the packaging could have contributed to the problem.
Martin Liddle – 41 minutes ago » …af123 over at hummy.tv has technical objections to using the Western Digital Surveillance Drives for PVR usage.
Could you expand on that.
Mine is whisper quiet. Unlike the WD-AV drives no jumper required to reduce the data transfer speed.
This discussion is becoming an esoteric debate on Seagate vs WD. I simply pointed out that my experience of ordering that drive from Amazon was not a good one. I decided not to request a replacement from Amazon based on… a) they were at that point out of stock b) their incompetence in packaging. My past experience with Ebuyer has been excellent.
As to WD drives requiring jumpers… no idea, I put it into my HDR1000S and it runs. Now I may yet live to regret buying that WD drive, who knows, but I’ve seen nothing yet to convince me that is highly likely. For example, in the hummy.tv post by af123 he/she states a write capacity of 60TB per year. That in itself would require the user to fill the disk 30 times in a year, unlikely in my case. However, wait a minute, that figure is open to challenge, the official WD spec on their webpage states 180TB per year. The rest of the hummy.tv “observations” are just that.
On balance my experience of Seagate vs WD has been, in desktop use over 15 years, that WD are more reliable. It will be interesting to see if that holds up in PVR use.
Pollensa1946 – 4 hours ago »
Pollensa1946 – 2 hours ago »
My experience of that drive from Amazon is not a good one…It arrived in a Jiffy bag enclosed in the usual Amazon cardboard wrapper used for books/CD’s etc. Completely inadequate for a HDD..
As I said. My experience from Amazon. My feedback to Amazon was that the packaging could have contributed to the problem.
Martin Liddle – 41 minutes ago » …af123 over at hummy.tv has technical objections to using the Western Digital Surveillance Drives for PVR usage.
Could you expand on that.
af123 has posted a few times on why he is not keen technically on WD for a PVR.
An example can be found at https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/swapping-hdds.7538/#post-102533
grahamlthompson – 12 minutes ago »
Mine is whisper quiet.
Both mine aren’t any where near as loud as a whisper apart from the loud click when they go into standby. If my first was as loud as a whisper then I wouldn’t have bought a second one.
Luke – 6 minutes ago »
Pollensa1946 – 4 hours ago »
Pollensa1946 – 2 hours ago »
My experience of that drive from Amazon is not a good one…It arrived in a Jiffy bag enclosed in the usual Amazon cardboard wrapper used for books/CD’s etc. Completely inadequate for a HDD..
As I said. My experience from Amazon. My feedback to Amazon was that the packaging could have contributed to the problem.
Martin Liddle – 41 minutes ago » …af123 over at hummy.tv has technical objections to using the Western Digital Surveillance Drives for PVR usage.
Could you expand on that.
af123 has posted a few times on why he is not keen technically on WD for a PVR.
An example can be found at https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/swapping-hdds.7538/#post-102533
grahamlthompson – 12 minutes ago »
Mine is whisper quiet.
Both mine aren’t any where near as loud as a whisper apart from the loud click when they go into standby. If my first was as loud as a whisper then I wouldn’t have bought a second one.
Only way to tell if HDD is running is mute the audio and stick earhole right up to the case. Never noticed any click on shut down either.
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