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#1 Amatøren

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 07:51

Hi

 

Can anyone confirm that this HDD can be used in my VU+ Duo2?

 

HDD: Seagate Ironwolf 8TB 3.5'' NAS HDD SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 256MB cache


 

What I am specifict thinking of, is that is no problem of the size. Physical AND storage capasity.


Can anyone confirm that this HDD can be used in my VU+ Duo2?



Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #2 Amatøren

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 10:05

Any information about max size of HDD in VU+ Duo2?



Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #3 WanWizard

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 10:41

No experience with that disk, but I don't see why it wouldn't work, it is a standard SATA disk.

 

Having said that, it's a NAS disk, running at 7200rpm, so it isn't the quietest disks. It might run hot as well. And it is designed for allways on,  not for the start/stop behaviour of disks in the STB. So personally I would not do this if I needed this amount of storage, but get a NAS instead.


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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #4 Amatøren

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 11:05

Thanks for advice.

 

I was thinking about the 7200 rpm disk was better if I got lots of recordings simultaneously. Will a 5400 rpm disk be good enough?

 

So an 8 TB HDD will not be a problem?


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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #5 WanWizard

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 13:11

I can't say for sure, I never used them. I have my storage in a NAS.

 

And a 5400rpm disk is more than fast enough, even recording 10 high-end channels will probably not exceed 100Mbps, which is not a problem for a modern SATA disk. It's more likely the SATA port of the SoC will block before the disk does...


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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #6 Amatøren

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 13:15

Thanks!



Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #7 betacentauri

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 14:02

Please also read about PMR and SMR. I think PMR is better for STBs afaik.
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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #8 40H3X

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 18:00

You can also have a look at this in the wiki https://wiki.openpli...ellite_receiver

 

It comes to the same conclusion 5400rpm is good enough.


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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #9 ims

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 19:02

7200rpm hdds are not ideal to cases without good ventilation (all boxes, imho). And produce more noise and vibration too.

 

I am using in all boxes with internal hdd 5400 2,5" WD AV-25 1TB

 
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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #10 MiLo

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 19:12

It's impossible these days to buy a disk that won't be able to keep up with at least 8 simultaneous UHD recordings.

Even really really old disks (before we had SATA) easily do 50MB/s (about 400Mbps) transfer rates. If it has a SATA interface, it will be plenty fast enough because it's new enough.
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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #11 Amatøren

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Posted 11 September 2018 - 20:17

Thanks.

I have now OpenPLi 6.2 on my (new - the old was striked by lightning.....) VU+ Duo2 with grid EPG on red button and subtitle choice on teletext button.

Running WD RED NAS 8 TB 5400 rpm for recordings.

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Re: HDD to VU+ Duo2 #12 winda8

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Posted 30 October 2018 - 06:16

Thank you!




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