Which external hard drive for DM800?

[saviola]

Will this work as an external hard drive with the Dreambox800?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digi...1471188&sr=8-1

I am after an external hard drive so I can record but not to sure which one works best or is recommended.

[loveman]

Not sure whether a 1tb hdd would work, as I remember it being said previously that 500gb was the biggest size the dm800 would support. But that was for internal hdd's.

One thing, this is a usb hdd, which may (not 100% sure, someone else might help you) require you to re-mount it everytime you reboot the box.

The best option would be to go for an e-sata hdd, or for an internal. Personally, I would recommend to go for an internal sata drive, but that's just my preferences (makes it look neater, since less cables and less space taken up)...

[saviola]

thanks mate.

Would any external e-sata drive do? Or is there any recomended ones.

I prefer getting an external drive due to the heating issues that are said to happen with internal hard drives in the dm800.

[bishbash]

Hi m8
I have an enternal 500gig drive for the last 12 months with no problems at all,and it's never turned off.

[bishbash]

internal (been drinking sorry).

[saviola]

which one? (make)

[loveman]

I too have internal 500gb hdd (previously it was a 320 hdd, but for the past 6 months or so, has been 500gb).

Mine is a WD Scorpio Blue iirc... Been a good drive so far, and had no lock ups at all...

[dman]

I have an external e sata Samsung 320 GB running for about a year now without any problems

[wanhunlo]

Get youself an Antec MX-1 external hard disk enclosure and put a standard size sata hard disk in it.

It has a build in fan to cool the hard dive, extremely quiet, comes with a esata cable. They look nice too.
I have a 1TB samsung sata2 drive in mine and can't hear a thing, flawless.