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    Pollensa1946 - 23 minutes ago  » 
    Beginning of June I used a WD Purple Surveillance 2TB drive from EBuyer. They are out of stock right now with that. I have had no problems whatsoever. I was recommended (on this forum) to get a Seagate drive from Amazon. It arrived in inadequate packaging and failed after a few hours, so I swapped to the WD as Amazon had no more stock of the Seagate. No regrets.

    Great, thanks for that. What drive manufacturer/model came with the unit? Any other tips/advice greatly reveived.

    | Mon 7 Aug 2017 13:36:01 #81 |
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    nssvn - 8 minutes ago  » ...What drive manufacturer/model came with the unit? Any other tips/advice greatly reveived.

    See this thread...

    https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/bye-bye-tivo-is-there-a-humax-box-for-me/page/2#post-58722

    The drive I used, WD20purx, has been superseded by WD20purz...

    https://www.wdc.com/en-um/products/internal-storage/wd-purple-surveillance-hard-drive.html

    https://blusas.co.uk/mho.php?loc=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Purple-Surveillance-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00IMPO5MO/?tag=blusas008-21
    (this is the superseded disk)

    Although I personally am wary of Amazon's ability to ship a drive in proper packaging after my recent experience.

    After carefully removing the rubber feet from the box underside the rest was easy on my 1000S.

    | Mon 7 Aug 2017 13:51:05 #82 |
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    Pollensa1946 - 24 minutes ago  » 

    nssvn - 8 minutes ago  » ...What drive manufacturer/model came with the unit? Any other tips/advice greatly reveived.

    See this thread...
    https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/bye-bye-tivo-is-there-a-humax-box-for-me/page/2#post-58722
    The drive I used, WD20purx, has been superseded by WD20purz...
    https://www.wdc.com/en-um/products/internal-storage/wd-purple-surveillance-hard-drive.html
    https://blusas.co.uk/mho.php?loc=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Purple-Surveillance-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00IMPO5MO/?tag=blusas008-21
    (this is the superseded disk)
    Although I personally am wary of Amazon's ability to ship a drive in proper packaging after my recent experience.
    After carefully removing the rubber feet from the box underside the rest was easy on my 1000S.

    Thanks again, have you also upgraded a HDR-1100S!?

    | Mon 7 Aug 2017 14:19:39 #83 |
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    nssvn - 7 hours ago  » ...have you also upgraded a HDR-1100S!?

    No, I have no experience of the 1100.

    | Mon 7 Aug 2017 21:46:26 #84 |
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    Not much difference though, the improved 1100S model has LED lights instead of a display, no scart and it's smaller. Upgrading/changing the hard drive should be just as simple as it is on the 1000S.

    | Tue 8 Aug 2017 11:25:43 #85 |
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    I think I saw a post by Barry saying opening the case of the HDR-1100S is similar to the method described for the FVT 4000T

    | Tue 8 Aug 2017 14:06:14 #86 |
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    ....thanks guys. Surprised no one's had a peep inside to see the drive used!

    | Tue 8 Aug 2017 15:50:28 #87 |
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    nssvn - 1 hour ago  » 
    ....thanks guys. Surprised no one's had a peep inside to see the drive used!

    The one in my 1000S was a Seagate, but you've read the story of why I did not replace it with the same.

    | Tue 8 Aug 2017 17:28:43 #88 |
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    Just bought a new HDR-1100s 500GB model and replaced the drive with a Western Digital Purple 2 TB one (WD20PURZ). No issues at all, box powered up, formatted the drive and all looks good.

    Saved £56 instead of paying Humax for the 2TB one.

    The only problem I had is the bracket holding the disk in place would not fit back on, but the drive is held in place with 4 screws so can't see it being an issue.

    | Wed 6 Sep 2017 16:53:53 #89 |
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    chistery - 2 hours ago  » 
    Just bought a new HDR-1100s 500GB model and replaced the drive with a Western Digital Purple 2 TB one (WD20PURZ). No issues at all, box powered up, formatted the drive and all looks good.
    Saved £56 instead of paying Humax for the 2TB one.
    The only problem I had is the bracket holding the disk in place would not fit back on, but the drive is held in place with 4 screws so can't see it being an issue.

    Thanks for the update on the 1100's drive change. Can you confirm the make and model of the 500gb HDD you removed please.
    Thanks

    | Wed 6 Sep 2017 19:58:02 #90 |

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