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  1. bob_dvb

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    Hi guys, I am curious to know how much storage you are using on your products, I would be grateful if you could answer these few questions and even pass this link on to others if you like. I don't mind if it is a Humax product or not.

    survey form

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:32:58 #1 |
  2. Barry

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    Hi Bob - Just submitted for 1 x HDR T2

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:49:18 #2 |
  3. grahamlthompson

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    Hello Bob

    Submitted Foxsat-hdr and HD FOX T2. I called the recording drive internal for the HD FOX T2 it is of course external but the form can't record comments

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:02:35 #3 |
  4. af123

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    Hi Bob,

    If it's of use, I can provide anonymised data for the Humax devices that use the hummypkg remote scheduling portal.

    I'm not typing all of them into the survey form though

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:06:25 #4 |
  5. Barry

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    Topic pinned to top of forum for a few days, try and get a few more responses for you Bob.

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 13:35:17 #5 |
  6. bob_dvb

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    af123,

    If you have it then it would be wonderful. I am happy to share some of my observations if people wish.

    I'm just doing some 'futurologist' stuff and storage is a boring but important aspect.

    Bob

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 13:36:33 #6 |
  7. bob_dvb

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    grahamlthompson - 1 hour ago  » 
    I called the recording drive internal for the HD FOX T2 it is of course external but the form can't record comments

    The fewer comments I have on the form the less complicated it is for me to manage the raw data! I don't want to make a thesis out of this, just some informal numbers.

    Thanks to you and everyone else, even the relatively few results I have so far have been interesting.

    Thanks Barry.

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 13:38:44 #7 |
  8. af123

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    bob_dvb - 25 minutes ago  » 
    af123,
    If you have it then it would be wonderful.

    I've extracted stats for 600 randomly selected Humax devices which are registered and placed them at http://hummypkg.org.uk/humaxdisk.csv

    These are all freeview boxes, either HDR-Fox T2 or HD-Fox T2 which is indicated by the first column. The subsequent columns are disk used, disk size and percentage used.

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 14:05:36 #8 |
  9. bob_dvb

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    Thanks af123, so the simple answer is 44.8%! (Or 46% for HDRs only).

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 15:54:07 #9 |
  10. af123

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    I think people tend to keep their disks about 50% full, regardless of the size of disk : ) It is likely that they do some pro-active cleaning up once it's over half full.

    There is definitely a sense of well being that's associated with dropping it back below 50%, although we've recently been able to squeeze an extra 10-20% out of the disk be removing redundant EIT packets from the stored recordings which is how I got mine down to size!
    (Shaving 10GiB off my Big Bang Theory collection for example)

    | Wed 27 Jun 2012 15:56:56 #10 |

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