Sky+ Hard Drive

aaron latham · 7 Mar 2018 at 10:30

Hi Guys

I have just upgraded to Sky Q and want to use my old Sky+ HD hard drive as external hard drive on my laptop, my question is what do I need to connect the hard drive to the laptop the Hard Drive is a Seagate 3.5 Video 500GB but im not sure on how to connect to the laptop.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

andicole0 · 7 Mar 2018 at 10:37

I ha heard that Virgin/TiVo disks can't it shouldn't be used due to odd formatting and constant use.
Not sure if Sky format in an odd way but their disks do get hammered.
However you could remove the disk (if you can get to it! ) connect it up to a spare sata port and power then see if your bios can see it the if Disk Manager can reformat it.
I wouldn't rely on it though.
Andi.

APM · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:50

Take the drive out of the sky box housing and see if it's a 2.5 or 3.5 inch version then get a caddy for it.

aaron latham · 7 Mar 2018 at 19:14

Thank you it is a 3.5 what connection does the caddy have to be?

ED209 · 7 Mar 2018 at 20:24

Something like this will do

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x IcyBox USB 3.0 Docking Station for 2.5" 3.5" SATA HDD (IB-112STU3-B )= £29.99
1 x Sandberg Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5"& 3.5" HDD's/SSD's (133-71)= £38.99

Total: £78.88 (includes shipping: £9.90)

The IcyBox doesn't state if it comes with a power cable or not which you will require if you wish to use 3.5" HHDs in it so might be worth checking first.

Just found this that should work and is quite cheap

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Silverstone EP02B USB3 to SATA Adapter Black= £12.02

Total: £20.72 (includes shipping: £8.70)

APM · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:27

The 3.5" version is tricky as you'll most likely need to provide external power so the docking station could be a good way to go.

A quick search for 2.5 and 3.5 hard drive caddy should introduce you to the kind of thing you'll need to use though.