Has anyone used this drive with their Bell Satellite PVR? We're looking for a USB 2.0, 7200 RPM. Do you think this will work?
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I don't own a Bell Satellite PVR but I don't see why it would not work. My Roku is a bit picky with external drives and this works great. You don't have much to lose when dealing with Amazon. Just return if it does not work. I'm going to buy another. I wish they would not have increased the price though. I bought it for $40.00.
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The only information I have I found on the Bell Website - External hard drives can only be added the following Bell TV model receivers: 9241, 9242, 9400, 6131, 6141, 6400. It cannot be added to any other models including the 9200 (which is no longer active on BTV anyway).
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I run a 32-bit Vista system. Formatted a 4tb drive GTP/NTFS, connected via eSata and it is both fast and reliable. USB does not work.
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The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
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Hi, thanks for contacting us. Unfortunately this drive is not compatible with your system. I am sorry and if there is anything else I can do for you or if you have any other questions please let me know. Sincerely, Chris Nickels Red Planet Trading
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I have not seen the actual specs, but it is slow , probably 5400rpm . This drive is good for back up, not immediate access time. That costs more , you know. DR
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I used mine as an alternate to the built in disk drive in my DirecTV satellite receiver DVR. The receiver would recognize only the external drive if it was connected. If the external drive is disconnected or fails, the receiver will revert to the internal drive. I know of no way to transfer the contents of an external DVR drive to another drive, although it may exist somewhere. My solution was to upgrade my satellite receiver to one with a bigger drive for the DVR.
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Hello, I do not have a prestige, however i believe all USB Hard drives work somewhat the same way - just plug and go! (i could be wrong tho) Hope this helps!
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I bought this drive back in May 2014 as a working drive for a Channel Master DVR+ (16GB High Definition) and it works great! I really do not notice a difference between accessing it and the built-in drives in my cable system DVR! Seem pretty fast. Accessing from a computer would depend on the the CPU set in the computer! One good thing I miss is the noise I use to hear with my old external hard drives. It operates very quietly.
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from AVS forums which is a great place for info on this DVR: *" Rear also has an SATA port for connecting an eSata external drive (up to 1TB) for expanded storage. This replaces the USB external storage function of the older models. USB externals cannot be used on the 3012. You must use a 7200rpm / 16mb buffered drive. User should avoid "green" hard drives and many people have had bad experiences with them due to variable speed rates and power saving features of the drives." http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1109524 I have the 1TB Lacie drive on two different 3012's and they work great.
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The drive is used for dvd backups and picture storage. When the old drive failed, I purchased another USB 3.0. That didn't help. I recovered almost 1 TB in two days. Then, since I had not yet received the new 3.0 card, I tried using the USB 2.0 to transfer from another backup (a western digital) to the Seagate. In 3 days, I moved about 300 Gb. That was left on 24 hours, too. After I got and installed the new 3.0 (I still doubted the old one), all remaing 500 plus Gb moved in less than 3 hours!. I never measured or recorded the speed. And the old 3.0 USB worked similarly.
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This is too slow to use for surveillance applications by itself. You want at least a 7200 RPM spin rate to keep up. I have one and it drops frames. I'm leaving the OS on this one and will get WD RE 3 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA III, 64 MB Cache for video database. Much more expensive, but should get the job done right. If you have this in a high speed RAID enclosure then the slower write speed is masked by performance boost of the RAID.
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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
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I can say, without thinking, I pulled the drive out while the computer was on. It rebooted my computer while the drive was still spinning in my hand, which was quite difficult to hang onto. Having done that, I feel it is pretty safe to say that you cant do it safely with a 7200rpm disk.
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Sorry, but the one I purchased just want out of its warranty and it died on me 1 week later. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRIVE FOR IMPORTANT DATA.When I now plug it in, all I hear is a click, click, click, so it is dead. I will never purchase another one of these!
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There is nothing High Performance about this DVR/Capture device. A 5400 rpm drive will work fine. Mine has been working flawlessly since I got it and installed the drive.
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I have 5 of these drives in a Sans Digital RAID box configured as two 2TB RAID 1 drives with a hot standby replacement drive. I've been running almost two years with no problems. I chose the lower spin rate (5400RPM) to be more reliable. I use the RAID 1 drives for backup/archive of other computers.