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DEphead2004

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This has always been a great forum for help, so I'd like to ask for some buying advice from knowledgeable people.

I have Freesat using a Foxsat and HB1000S+HDD. I'd like to buy either:

a second HB1000S+2TB HDD refurb £39 or
a HDR1000S (1TB) refurb £139 or
a HDR1100S (500GB) new £189.

I am pleased with the current HB1000S but would like the benefit of twin tuners for convenience sake. Cosmetic appearance is unimportant as it will be unseen.

So are there any advantages of the HDR1100S over the HDR1000S?

Any views on:
reliability (I had two Foxsats expire before their time due to overheating capacitors. Their replacement seems better but I always now use powersave)
improved firmware (I think they are the same)
speed of processor/more memory (I find the slow boot up annoying on the HB1000S)
Bang for bucks
Anything else?

Your comments would be most appreciated

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 6:55:44 #1 |
REPASSAC

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reliability - Same.
firmware - Basically same - the HB may be very slightly different.
Processor speed same. The HB may take longer to boot and sleep as possibility of no disk dictates design to copying power down state / settings to flash memory which is much slower than disk.

Value for money 1. HB-1000S, 2. HDR-1000S, 3 HDR-1100S.

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 7:25:09 #2 |
DEphead2004

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Thanks so much for this early reply. Did you mean flash memory slower than disk. I thought reverse? My ssd on a pc is really fast

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 7:43:42 #3 |
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DEphead2004 - 1 hour ago »
Thanks so much for this early reply. Did you mean flash memory slower than disk. I thought reverse? My ssd on a pc is really fast

There are different types and speeds for Flash memory. Wikipedia.
If you put a HB-1000S into standby and measure it's power consumption you will see that it takes about 5 minutes for the power to drop to the standby sub 0.5w.

On the Foxsat the custom firmware channel editor rewrites a section of N.V. memory on the first boot of teh day - this takes just under a minute from memory.

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 9:14:30 #4 |
DEphead2004

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Interesting Thanks

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 9:15:55 #5 |
grahamlthompson

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The Foxsat-HD had the capacitor issue, afaik none of the Foxsat-HDR's ever did. My 20008 Foxsat-HDR is still in daily use.

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 10:04:16 #6 |
DEphead2004

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Thanks Graham, Would you have any buying advice for me as per post 1?

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 10:10:59 #7 |
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DEphead2004 - 1 hour ago »
Thanks Graham, Would you have any buying advice for me as per post 1?

I would agree 100% with Repassac.

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 11:40:53 #8 |
DEphead2004

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Thanks so much

| Mon 8 Feb 2016 12:03:20 #9 |