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Hi all,
For what it’s worth, a little story:
I recently picked up an old 9300T. I reformatted the HDD and did a complete retune (disconnected the aerial lead, ran a re-tune so it found no signals, saved that, re-connected the aerial and ran a further re-tune and saved the results). It worked, but proved to be pretty temperamental. Very slow to respond to commands and if impatient, locked up. Sometimes recorded a program different from that requested. Many programmes looked to be recorded but were not playable. Reformatted again and behaved much the same. All the same old problems.
I decided to put in a 2.5inch 5400rpm HDD I’d got laying around just to try it. Formatted and re-tuned again.
WOW!!! What a difference! Has run faultlessly now for weeks, recording and playing back properly. And so much faster to respond to commands! Really pleased, I am.
Hope that helps somebody.
Thank you for posting this. I am in a similar position with my 9300 after over 10 years of relatively trouble free use. Reluctant to just throw it out.
I am sure i have an old 2.5″ laptop drive lying around somewhere, so when time permits i will try bunging it in with the hope i can salvage this PVR.
Thanks again.
Hi fluffy54,
Thanks for your response.
I’m sure a 3.5 inch 5400rpm (or faster) would effect the same improvement – doesn’t have to be 2.5 inch – that’s what I had to hand!
My Hummy continues to work extremely well and I just picked up another, so I’ll report back in due course!
Best regards, a4U
a4u – 6 days ago »
I decided to put in a 2.5inch 5400rpm HDD I’d got laying around just to try it. Formatted and re-tuned again.
What make and model was the drive you removed?
It was a WD3200AVVS ‘Green Power’.
Hope that helps?
a4u
The only drive spare i had was a 2.5″ one (just for testing purposes). The HD on mine is a also a WD3200AVVS.
The only problem my 9300T has is not recording scheduled programs. If i power on the unit, about 10 minutes before the scheduled recording starts, it will record fine. BUT, if i leave the unit on standby it will not start to record.
Manual recordings however, work fine.
So i fitted this spare drive, set the unit to default, formatted the drive,& manual channel search.
Will see what happens tonight when it is scheduled to record “Neighbours” (PS….for the wife.)
Good luck! I’ve not seen many reports of failing to ‘wake up’ to record a scheduled programme.
Passed the “Neighbours” test. Will leave this spare drive in over the weekend…….if still ok I will order a “proper” replacement drive.
Good news and well done!
a4u
It seems the celebrations were a bit premature. Been out shopping most of the afternoon & powered up the TV and everything connected to it at 4PM. I noticed that at 17:30 it had not started to record the scheduled program. Had a close look at the LCD screen & noticed the time was displayed as 13:15!
Appears that whatever controls the time has malfunctioned?
Never had this happen before.
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