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If it’s a 2.5″ laptop drive it will work just fine when connected to the box’s USB 2 port. If its a 3.5″ desktop drive it won’t work as it needs an external PSU for the 12V supply required by the larger drive.
Martin Liddle – 12 hours ago »
crashcris – 1 day ago »
Hi Luke, well, I bought a 2TB WD HDD and it was already formatted in NTFS, however, when plugged into the Humax, nothing appeared. I plugged it into my Macbook and I could see/read it but (as expected) not write to it. It’s using a USB3 connection which should be back compatible to USB2.
Does it have an external power supply? Does the documentation that came with it say how much power it requires?
I can’t find any reference to which flavour of USB the humax USB port is
The Humax has USB2 ports but as you say USB3 should work but will be only provide the 500mA specified by the USB2 standard rather than the 0.9A of a normal USB3 port.
@Trev and Martin. Thanks for getting back to me. This is the 2TB HDD I bought. It’s similar to the 2TB WD HDD I have formatted to FAT32 that works, only it’s a lot thinner (about half the thickness), they both are only powered through the USB, no external power line. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06W55K9N6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
crashcris – 1 hour ago »
@Trev and Martin. Thanks for getting back to me. This is the 2TB HDD I bought. It’s similar to the 2TB WD HDD I have formatted to FAT32 that works, only it’s a lot thinner (about half the thickness), they both are only powered through the USB, no external power line.
Western Digital seem to be very coy about the power consumption. IF (pure speculation) what is inside is WD Blue PC Mobile hard drive then the specification sheet lists the maximum current requirement as 1A (=-10%) which is more than the Humax can supply but the average power requirement for read/write 1.7W (0.34A) which would be OK. As they market it as USB2.0 compatible I guess it will typically work with a PC but I am not as optimistic as Trev about it definitely working on the Humax. If you can hear or feel it spin up then it is probably suitable and we need to understand what else is causing the problem.
Martin Liddle – 1 hour ago »
crashcris – 1 hour ago »
@Trev and Martin. Thanks for getting back to me. This is the 2TB HDD I bought. It’s similar to the 2TB WD HDD I have formatted to FAT32 that works, only it’s a lot thinner (about half the thickness), they both are only powered through the USB, no external power line.
Western Digital seem to be very coy about the power consumption. IF (pure speculation) what is inside is WD Blue PC Mobile hard drive then the specification sheet lists the maximum current requirement as 1A (=-10%) which is more than the Humax can supply but the average power requirement for read/write 1.7W (0.34A) which would be OK. As they market it as USB2.0 compatible I guess it will typically work with a PC but I am not as optimistic as Trev about it definitely working on the Humax. If you can hear or feel it spin up then it is probably suitable and we need to understand what else is causing the problem.
Again, thanks. It’s with a mate of mine who’s going to reformat in ext3, I’ll get it back on weds. I’ll let you know then. Cris.
crashcris – 1 hour ago »
It’s with a mate of mine who’s going to reformat in ext3, I’ll get it back on weds. I’ll let you know then. Cris.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
crashcris – 1 week ago »
@Luke, yes, that’s why I’ll need to buy another HDD because there’s a lot that I do want to keep even if I don’t have complete programmes. I’m not going to format it till I’ve saved on another drive
@Martin Liddle, I think I’m a little stumped on this as so far I’ve tried formatting a memory stick in ExFAT and Mac OS Extended. When I put the stick into the Humax it can’t write to it or read it. Only when I reformat it back to FAT32 does it work as before (but with a 4GB restriction). Oh the joys of a Mac. If I get a mate to format it into NTFS on a PC, will it then be able to be read on my Mac or will it only work with a PC? Thanks.
Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.
Faust – 6 hours ago »
Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.
But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?
Martin Liddle – 10 hours ago »
Faust – 6 hours ago »
Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.
But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?
No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.
No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.
But this thread is about moving content from an HDR-2000T.
SUCCESS!
I had to phone the Western Digital help desk, 23p/min. They initially showed me how to get the HDD to be recognised by my 2000T using a mac. Applications>Utilities>DiscUtility> click the WD Elements disc, then click “View” (top left hand corner) > Show All Devices.>Erase, Which showed a part of the HDD, which gave a new box to click which wasn’t previously there, “Scheme”> Master Boot Record> Erase. This formatted it to Fat32 (which is all I could do on my mac, but it was now read/writeable on the Humax. Then my mate plugged it into his PC and formatted it once again in NTFS (he said he did it the same as previously) and for what ever reasons, the Humax now can write files much bigger than 4GB to the HDD.
Many thanks for all those who helped in assisting me on this one, hopefully this can help others in the future with similar probs.
Many thanks. Cris.
Martin Liddle – 2 days ago »
Faust – 2 hours ago »
Martin Liddle – 10 hours ago »
But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?
No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.
But this thread is about moving content from an HDR-2000T.
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing, saved them back in different format and I can now use them pretty much where I want.
Faust – 2 hours ago »
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing,
So tell us what format the drive was formatted in: FAT32, NTFS, ext3,..?
Martin Liddle – 19 hours ago »
Faust – 2 hours ago »
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing,
So tell us what format the drive was formatted in: FAT32, NTFS, ext3,..?
Given it’s around 2 years ago now I’m struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I’m pretty sure it would be NTFS. The thumb drives I have used are Fat 32.
As an aside. My Mac can not only see the NTFS drive but can play the transport stream as copied from the Human 2000T as I’ve just tried it out.
Faust – 1 hour ago »
Given it’s around 2 years ago now I’m struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I’m pretty sure it would be NTFS.
I thought an NTFS drive would be OK but the OP couldn’t get it to work.
Martin Liddle – 2 hours ago »
Faust – 1 hour ago »
Given it’s around 2 years ago now I’m struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I’m pretty sure it would be NTFS.
I thought an NTFS drive would be OK but the OP couldn’t get it to work.
Did you not see my post #25 above? I’ve got it working, first on fat32 and now NTFS. Everything’s being moved to my new WD HDD. My Stormzy and The Cure Glastonbury recordings are now complete. Yippie!
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