Media Markt were just the ticket. A 500Gb TOURO proper hard disk. Plugged it in and "bingo", I immediately got a positive response from the Humax and am currently recording s trial piece.
Humax are a real pain, they must know that a USB stick doesn´t work. That´s all time money and significant frustration.
Anyway thanks "Forum"
Hi all I have recently bought an HB-1000s & have just joined this forum.
The user manual is very sketchy regarding the fitting of a hard drive via the USB port so I sent the following to Humax Support :-
"Can you tell me what is the power (in MA) available from the USB ports on this freesat box.
Is it possible to run a 2.5” hdd that is designed to be powered solely by USB from the humax box."
To which their reply was :-
" Thank you for contacting Humax Support. It is not possible to power a USB drive from the USB port. You would need to use an externally powered USB hard drive with the Humax Box."
This seems to conflict with information that appears on this forum as it seems that members are using USB powered Hdds.
I was under the impression that the USB standard allowed up to 500ma to be drawn from each port & probably most 2.5" drives do not draw this amount of current.
Can any one enlighten me
Thanks
KDBCOM - 13 minutes ago »
Hi all I have recently bought an HB-1000s & have just joined this forum.
The user manual is very sketchy regarding the fitting of a hard drive via the USB port so I sent the following to Humax Support :-
"Can you tell me what is the power (in MA) available from the USB ports on this freesat box.
Is it possible to run a 2.5” hdd that is designed to be powered solely by USB from the humax box."
To which their reply was :-
" Thank you for contacting Humax Support. It is not possible to power a USB drive from the USB port. You would need to use an externally powered USB hard drive with the Humax Box."
This seems to conflict with information that appears on this forum as it seems that members are using USB powered Hdds.
I was under the impression that the USB standard allowed up to 500ma to be drawn from each port & probably most 2.5" drives do not draw this amount of current.
Can any one enlighten me
Thanks
See the HB1000S faq.
http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hb-1000s-is-this-unit-pvr-ready
Thanks Graham
I had read that but after being told by Humax that it is not possible to power from the Humax box I was a bit concerned about doing damage to it & negating the warranty. Some external 2.5" caddies have 2 USB plugs one taking power & data & the other drawing power only (using a Y lead).
How has Barry powered his USB drives, using 1 or 2 USB outlets ???
Barry would have said if he had used a dual power usb cable. My HDR1000s will happily power a 1TB USB 3.0 portable drive when used as a media player
KDBCOM - 27 minutes ago »
Thanks GrahamHow has Barry powered his USB drives, using 1 or 2 USB outlets ???
Only the one for HDD the other is used for powering network adaptor
Thanks Barry.
It is a pity that Humax have only allocated just 1 measly page regarding recording. Nothing about types of drives or how many can be connected or how they can be used. Nothing about USB in their specsheet either Even the HTML info link they quote does not work.
Nice piece of hardware marred by poor usage instructions. Luckily this forum is here, though I bet the average 50- 70 year old would not be aware of the use of forums. I'm in that age range but have come from a computer background so I know of the usefulness of them.
I rather think that the manual is mostly freesat's work rather than Humax's.
I think that Humax customer support gave you advice for the Foxsat rather than the 1000S units. Some users have experienced problems with unpowered drives on the Foxsat.
Hard drives can vary a great deal in their power consumption. AV drives, which are intended for continuous recording , tend to be very low power.
Thanks for that info.
My query to Humax was headed HB-1000s but customer support probably did not read the heading.
Am using a WD 320 Gig 3.5" externally powered drive at the moment but I am probably going to replace that with a spare Seagate Replica (formatted as a standard ext drive) 2.5" 500 gig unit, may use a combination of them both.
Think the Seagate may be a bit hefty in the power requirement side so I may externally power that using the "red wire snip" modification to the USB cable power +ve lead that I have read about. This will give power to the drive but not supply it to the Humax socket. I have spare 5V PSUs about.
I am using one of these with my HB-1000S. http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-800020.pdf
Note how low the power requirements are.
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