Sky HD boxes support 1000GB....(1 Terabyte) harddrive upgrade

chaparral · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:03

A few people over at avforums has upgraded there skyhd box to 1000GB by using two 500gb sata harddrives (running in raid) in a ext sata raid box..all for the price of about £300 to £350...

One person quoted
I am now up to 1000gb - minus 140gb for Sky's own use.... and it works! Planet Earth-2%, I Robot-2% Star Wars-3%... God I'm so smug... and all for about £350

another quoted...
Had all 6 Star Wars, Wind in the Willows and King Kong and had 4% free. After 2 hours copying, connecting it all up I have 84% free ..

from 4% free to 84%free

Jez · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:38

No real reason why this only applies to the high def boxes in theory, st def boxes work with single drives at 750GB, assuming that you could get an external p-ata based disk controller, you could do the same for any.

chaparral · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:47

Jez said:
No real reason why this only applies to the high def boxes in theory, st def boxes work with single drives at 750GB, assuming that you could get an external p-ata based disk controller, you could do the same for any.

Most places have always said sky boxes like my pace 3100 only works fine with up to 250gb...

Jez · 15 Jan 2007 at 00:18

chaparral said:
Most places have always said sky boxes like my pace 3100 only works fine with up to 250gb...

Thats only the limit of the FSR feature. Can be gotten around but preparing a bigger drive using copy+ and a smaller compatible drive.

Begbie · 15 Jan 2007 at 08:25

Lol, is there much point anyway, eventually the box will break or you'll never watch half the stuff on there

chaparral · 15 Jan 2007 at 17:29

begbo said:
Lol, is there much point anyway, eventually the box will break or you'll never watch half the stuff on there

860Gb (sky hd box uses 140gb) would only = about 45 HD movies....Not that much really...
and you could always back them up to another two 500gb harddrives..

plus..45 HD-DVD/blu-ray movies would cost about £900 or more

Energize · 15 Jan 2007 at 18:35

From what I remember though it's only legal to record programs for timeshifting purposes not for keeping an archive of them which is what a movie collection would be.

chaparral · 15 Jan 2007 at 18:42

Energize said:
From what I remember though it's only legal to record programs for timeshifting purposes not for keeping an archive of them which is what a movie collection would be.

But you are recording them all for timeshifting purposes....As your going be watching them sometime later....

(Is there somewhere saying how long you can keep a recording for on the skybox harddrive ???)

Jez · 15 Jan 2007 at 22:21

Energize said:
From what I remember though it's only legal to record programs for timeshifting purposes not for keeping an archive of them which is what a movie collection would be.

Do you honestly think anyone is ever going to give this even a moments thought?

Energize · 15 Jan 2007 at 23:41

Jez said:
Do you honestly think anyone is ever going to give this even a moments thought?

Did I say they would?

Jez · 15 Jan 2007 at 23:49

Energize said:
Did I say they would?

If you were not implying that then why bother posting?

Corasik · 16 Jan 2007 at 00:02

chaparral said:
860Gb (sky hd box uses 140gb) would only = about 45 HD movies....Not that much really...
and you could always back them up to another two 500gb harddrives..

plus..45 HD-DVD/blu-ray movies would cost about £900 or more

Thats assuming SkyHD movies come in at 19gig a pop, that might be a fair average for a Blu Ray, or HD-DVD movie, but SkyHd... come on, they most likely have a far more aggressive compresssion algorithm.

A Sky SD movie is more like 700meg or so, I would expect Sky HD to be in the order of 2-3gig per movie, nothing more. I dont have SkyHD though, so could be talking out of my ...... But Sky's not exactly generous in terms of bandwidth. High compression = more channels = more revenue opportunities.

Energize · 16 Jan 2007 at 00:32

Jez said:
If you were not implying that then why bother posting?

Why did you bother posting then?

Seriously. :rolleyes:

fornowagain · 16 Jan 2007 at 04:32

Corasik said:
Thats assuming SkyHD movies come in at 19gig a pop, that might be a fair average for a Blu Ray, or HD-DVD movie, but SkyHd... come on, they most likely have a far more aggressive compresssion algorithm.

A Sky SD movie is more like 700meg or so, I would expect Sky HD to be in the order of 2-3gig per movie, nothing more. I dont have SkyHD though, so could be talking out of my ...... But Sky's not exactly generous in terms of bandwidth. High compression = more channels = more revenue opportunities.

I think you're a bit out there, check AVFORUMS for example the Star Wars series came in at 17 to 20Mbps. Thats 7.5 to 8.8GB/h. Hence the talk of bigger hard drives. HD-DVD/BR is seriously compressed to get them to fit the disks. Even cheapo HDV camcorders compress at 25Mbps. Professional codecs e.g. DVCPro HD are more like 100Mbps, thats 43GB/h. Just looking at a Superman Returns HD-DVD the video file is 26GB for 154mins, or about 23Mbps

Goatboy · 16 Jan 2007 at 08:51

Corasik said:
I would expect Sky HD to be in the order of 2-3gig per movie, nothing more.

more like 10GB absolute minimum for a shortish film.

Jez · 16 Jan 2007 at 09:16

Energize said:
Why did you bother posting then?

Seriously.

You posted it! I was wondering why, when obviously nobody interested in this kind of things is going to be bothered by timeshifting laws.

HEADRAT · 16 Jan 2007 at 09:22

Look you always have to have one "Hollier than thou" post in every thread of this type, it seems to be the law, remember if you keep your recording you are no better than scum in my book and I would glady burn your house down and kill your dog.

HEADRAT

chaparral · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:20

HEADRAT said:
Look you always have to have one "Hollier than thou" post in every thread of this type, it seems to be the law, remember if you keep your recording you are no better than scum in my book and I would glady burn your house down and kill your dog.

HEADRAT

How many friends do you know that do not keep any movies on there sky+ harddrive or recorded them onto DVD-r or VHS with there DVD recorder or VCR...???

Because every single person i know has got at lest some movies copyed from sky/TV on one of these formats..

Jez · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:53

HEADRAT said:
I would glady burn your house down and kill your dog

Seems a bit extreme, i think you are going to be killing a lot of dogs if you took the same action for everyone who kept a recording for too long.

Abyss · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:07

Jez said:
Seems a bit extreme, i think you are going to be killing a lot of dogs if you took the same action for everyone who kept a recording for too long.

I think there is an element of sarcasm there in relation to how these threads usually end up with people saying that others are scum for breaking some minor law that is completely disregarded in modern society

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Sky HD boxes support 1000GB....(1 Terabyte) harddrive upgrade

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