Question I ask as with a family of 6 2tb is very very small, currently have the 2tb skyhd boxes working in 3 parts of my household! I'd love all the functionality of skyQ, would like to pay for it even! Currently not feasible with the way Sky have stopped any increase in storage.. With the advent of UHD guessing this a big problem, I remember back when they started doing HD and you could get 28-30 Hrs of recordings lol Discuss..
When will sky increase skyQ storage?
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You need more than 350 hours of HD TV?
This is why people panic when their Sky hard drives or Sky boxes pack in. They're using it to archive rather than time-shift.
We have a 500Gb HD box. I'd be surprised if there's a dozen programs recorded and waiting to be watched. We watch, then delete. Nor do we go through box sets hoarding the downloads "just in case".
We have a 500Gb HD box. I'd be surprised if there's a dozen programs recorded and waiting to be watched. We watch, then delete. Nor do we go through box sets hoarding the downloads "just in case".
The Sky HD boxes became the customer's property after the initial 12-month contract had run its course. That's not the situation with the Q box. It's a perpetual rental agreement. Ownership of the goods never transfers to the customer. The gear remains Sky's property. That presents a different situation regarding HD upgrades.
The other issue is that a lot of PVRs are limited in drive size to 2TB. That's because of the way the drive is formatted. It's not visible in the same way that say a HD in a USB caddy is to a standard Windows PC either.
Almost ironically though, Q boxes have a removable cover plate on the base which make drive swaps a doddle. This is so that if/when a Q box fails, the drive can be transferred to a new chassis so that the customer's recordings aren't lost so long as the drive itself is still functional.
meant it was the owner's responsibility if an upgrade went wrong
Sky won’t and don’t replace hard drives on site, they will swap the whole box. As said above though, they’re not designed for permanent storage or as a backup solution and shouldn’t be treated as such.
I don’t believe there are any plans to increase storage beyond 2TB.
Amazed that anyone still uses HDD recording. This feature was great (a game changer) in the 00s with Sky+, and later with Sky HD, but isnt everything on demand these days? We have nothing on ours, just used for the pause/rewind feature to function. Really this is all that they are designed for these days surely, hence the relatively low capacity.