Adding memory to Sky+

The wife and kids series link so much crap that we always have less
than 20% free on the planner, so rather than put a keep mark against
any of my stuff, i thought I'd swap out the hard drive for a 160gb one.

Is this a simple process, and apart from invalidating the warranty, are
there any issues? Is it going to affect the performance of the
software?

And who will sell me the cheapest/best?

Cheers
Ed

"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
The wife and kids series link so much crap that we always have less
than 20% free on the planner, so rather than put a keep mark against
any of my stuff, i thought I'd swap out the hard drive for a 160gb one.

Is this a simple process, and apart from invalidating the warranty, are
there any issues? Is it going to affect the performance of the
software?

And who will sell me the cheapest/best?

Cheers
Ed



The process is very easy, if I can do it then anyone can!! All the info you
need is here -
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=156344


One thing to note is that you may find the fan is on all the time if you
upgrade, certainly on my Pace PVR2 box. It was annoying to begin with but we
are used to it now.

regards
Norman

Norman wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
The wife and kids series link so much crap that we always have less
than 20% free on the planner, so rather than put a keep mark against
any of my stuff, i thought I'd swap out the hard drive for a 160gb one.

Is this a simple process, and apart from invalidating the warranty, are
there any issues? Is it going to affect the performance of the
software?

And who will sell me the cheapest/best?

Cheers
Ed



The process is very easy, if I can do it then anyone can!! All the info you
need is here -
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=156344


One thing to note is that you may find the fan is on all the time if you
upgrade, certainly on my Pace PVR2 box. It was annoying to begin with but we
are used to it now.

regards
Norman

Thanks Norman

I can't believe there has been inflation in the memory market. What
about Moore's law? The article says 250 gb maxtor should be £65, I
can't find one cheaper than £85

Ed wrote:

Norman wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
The wife and kids series link so much crap that we always have less
than 20% free on the planner, so rather than put a keep mark against
any of my stuff, i thought I'd swap out the hard drive for a 160gb one.

Is this a simple process, and apart from invalidating the warranty, are
there any issues? Is it going to affect the performance of the
software?

And who will sell me the cheapest/best?

Cheers
Ed



The process is very easy, if I can do it then anyone can!! All the info you
need is here -
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=156344


One thing to note is that you may find the fan is on all the time if you
upgrade, certainly on my Pace PVR2 box. It was annoying to begin with but we
are used to it now.

regards
Norman

Thanks Norman

I can't believe there has been inflation in the memory market. What
about Moore's law? The article says 250 gb maxtor should be £65, I
can't find one cheaper than £85

You're looking in the wrong place then .

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120289

Doc

Ed wrote:

Thanks Norman

I can't believe there has been inflation in the memory market. What
about Moore's law? The article says 250 gb maxtor should be £65, I
can't find one cheaper than £85


I think you're talking about the hard disk market, not the memory market.

In article . com, Ed
writes

Norman wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
The wife and kids series link so much crap that we always have less
than 20% free on the planner, so rather than put a keep mark against
any of my stuff, i thought I'd swap out the hard drive for a 160gb one.

Is this a simple process, and apart from invalidating the warranty, are
there any issues? Is it going to affect the performance of the
software?

And who will sell me the cheapest/best?

Cheers
Ed



The process is very easy, if I can do it then anyone can!! All the info you
need is here -
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=156344


One thing to note is that you may find the fan is on all the time if you
upgrade, certainly on my Pace PVR2 box. It was annoying to begin with but we
are used to it now.

regards
Norman

Thanks Norman

I can't believe there has been inflation in the memory market. What
about Moore's law? The article says 250 gb maxtor should be £65, I
can't find one cheaper than £85


You wouldn't want a Maxtor, changed no end of those bl**dy things for
Seagate's which give no bother




£51-83 inc. VAT

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/102936
--
Tony Sayer

You're looking in the wrong place then .

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120289

Doc

Don't buy that particular one, its got no lid!
--

Graham.
%Profound_observation%

tony sayer wrote:
You wouldn't want a Maxtor, changed no end of those bl**dy things for
Seagate's which give no bother

Same company, of course... Not had any problem with any of my Maxtors. Was
it a specific model you had trouble with? What were the nature of the
failures?

In article , Pyriform
writes
tony sayer wrote:
You wouldn't want a Maxtor, changed no end of those bl**dy things for
Seagate's which give no bother

Same company, of course... Not had any problem with any of my Maxtors. Was
it a specific model you had trouble with? What were the nature of the
failures?



The 40 and 80 GB drives mainly bad sectors and complete disk failure.
Perhaps they had a bad batch, perhaps I was unlucky having bought a lot
of them for a number of PC's we maintain, but never ever had a Seagate
fail!...
--
Tony Sayer

Pyriform wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
You wouldn't want a Maxtor, changed no end of those bl**dy things for
Seagate's which give no bother

Same company, of course... Not had any problem with any of my Maxtors. Was
it a specific model you had trouble with? What were the nature of the
failures?

The large capacity maxtors are incredibly unreliable, I have encountered a
large number of failures, i have one in my machine at the moment holding
some video, and other none essential stuff, it runs extremely hot, virtually
burning to the touch, and i honestly expect it to fail.

Gaz