Minstrel SE - 51 minutes ago »
My unit is also losing disc functions until rebooted so its really not looking good at all for a happy future
I would take it back and ask for a refund and then buy elsewhere. Its not just the noise but also the fact that the HDD is also not always playing being recognised at system start up.
There are people like me who would just take noisy units back and therefore there will be a greater percentage of refurbished units that are noisy compared to new. If I was getting fed up with it all I wouldn't even get a refurbished unit from humax direct(current cost for a 500Gb with a 1 year warranty is £109 + £7 P&P, then a self upgrade to a 2TB would cost an additional £69 and negate the warranty). Or perhaps I would and then after a few months update to the seagate pipeline 2TB as I've already had 2 and they are quiet enough - a bit of a wiz on start up and a clear click at power down which other owners have also remarked on.
What size is your 2000T's HDD? Noise complaints posted on-line about the 500GB are far rarer than the 1TB.
Thinking about whether the shop is selling refurbished as new, were instructions for obtaining a 2 year Humax guarantee included with it? If it was missing then it does not look like it was new. Unfortunately sometimes it can still be present with refurbished units, and so its presence is no guarantee that the unit is new.
By the way the 2 year guarantee allows Humax to replace with a refurbished model instead of repairing so its normally better to go through the retailer first, at least in the first year. A couple of years ago the Humax on-line registration did not check at time of registration whether the unit is known to be not new and so it can't be used to check whether the the unit is known to Humax to be refurbished or previously registered.
| Tue 6 Sep 2016 23:00:32
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with an 8000T but I didnt expect hard drive noise like this.
