Hi, I currently have an HB1000S at home with a USB SSD for recordings.
I'm thinking of now using that in our caravan with a mobile sat dish.
At home I'd get an HDR1100 500GB.
i/ Would I be able to copy recordings from the HDR1100 onto the SSD and play them back on the HB1000S?
ii/ Would I be able to play recording from the HB1000S on the HDR1100 via the SSD?
chyaweth - 1 hour ago »
Hi, I currently have an HB1000S at home with a USB SSD for recordings.
I'm thinking of now using that in our caravan with a mobile sat dish.
At home I'd get an HDR1100 500GB.
i/ Would I be able to copy recordings from the HDR1100 onto the SSD and play them back on the HB1000S?
ii/ Would I be able to play recording from the HB1000S on the HDR1100 via the SSD?
No to both. Only the box that recorded the content will play the recordings back.
Shame but I suspected as much. Thanks.
chyaweth - 19 mins ago »
Shame but I suspected as much. Thanks.
You could of course take the box that recorded the content to the caravan together with the drive. Intrigued why you used a SSD other than totally silent recording it offers no advantage over a much much cheaper recording drive.
I didn't find mechanical HDs that much less expensive.
As well as quietness, the SSD certainly takes up far less space, is lighter, and requires less power.
chyaweth - 13 mins ago »
I didn't find mechanical HDs that much less expensive.
As well as quietness, the SSD certainly takes up far less space, is lighter, and requires less power.
£134.00 pound cheaper. You will never get that back in power saving. In addition the jurys out as to longuevity when the data is constantly being written and overwritten as happens with the time shift buffer file. 2.5" 5200 sata drives use very little power.
They are of course ideal to hold a OS like windows which is not constantly changing.
chyaweth - 1 hour ago »
I didn't find mechanical HDs that much less expensive.
As well as quietness, the SSD certainly takes up far less space, is lighter, and requires less power.
Here you go. Just did a test on a couple.
64Gb Kingston SSD 80gm 300mA, 1TB, Toshiba laptop drive 112gm 190mA
SSD wins on weight 32 gm lighter. Loses on power 110mA more. Exactly the same size. HDD wins on cost by a long way. Samsung 1Tb SSD £132 Silent. WD Blue 1TB 2.5" HDD £45. Noise level = negligible
It's a no trainer, HHD for PVR not expensive SSD with unproven track record when used for PVR. You need the right tool for the job.
Thanks for all the responses.
To be honest I had a 250GB SSD "hanging around" so used that rather than buy a dedicated mechanical HD. For the amount its used its enough.
chyaweth - 13 mins ago »
Thanks for all the responses.
To be honest I had a 250GB SSD "hanging around" so used that rather than buy a dedicated mechanical HD. For the amount its used its enough.
It will be interesting to see how it performs after a year or so. The 1TB WD AV-GP drive in my Foxsat-HDR which is still used every day is nearing 20 yrs old. On the other hand the 2TB Seagate in my HDR-1000S pipeline failed after about 2.5 yrs.
The boot drive in my Core I7 Windows 10 laptop is a very fast 2TB SSD, the second drive which I use for data is a 2TB 2.5" Sata 6 drive. It's plenty fast enough for Video processing. Boot time takes about 5 seconds or so.
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