DVD Recorders Hard Drive

[Videot]

Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard drives
of the same type used in your PC? If the answer is yes do any of these
machines have the capabilty of adding a second drive in much the same way as
you can plug an USB2 drive into your PC?

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[Rod Speed]

Videot <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard drives of
> the same type used in your PC?

Yes.

> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of adding a
> second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive into your PC?

Not sure what this bit is about.

[Videot]

If I wish to increase the storage capacity of my PC I can just plug in a
second hard drive into the PC's USB2 port thus allowing me to store more
data or video.

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Videot <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>
>> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard
>> drives of the same type used in your PC?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of
>> adding a second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive
>> into your PC?
>
> Not sure what this bit is about.
>

[Fred At Home]

"Videot" <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard drives
> of the same type used in your PC?

Yes

> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of adding
> a second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive into
> your PC?


That is a really dumb way to add a permanent drive to a PC.

Try this:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=topfield+drive+caddy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Rod Speed]

Videot <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> If I wish to increase the storage capacity of my PC I can just plug in a
> second hard drive into the PC's USB2 port thus allowing me to store more data
> or video.

Nope, not usually.


> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Videot <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:42563164$0$29867$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>>
>>> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard drives
>>> of the same type used in your PC?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of adding a
>>> second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive into your
>>> PC?
>>
>> Not sure what this bit is about.
>>
>
>

[Gilgamesh]

"Fred At Home" <fredhome@fscans.cjb.net> wrote in message
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> "Videot" <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:42563164$0$29867$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard
>> drives of the same type used in your PC?
>
> Yes
>
>> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of
>> adding a second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive
>> into your PC?
>
>
> That is a really dumb way to add a permanent drive to a PC.

I believe he was wondering about adding USB disk to the DVD recorder so that
he could transfer it easily.

>
> Try this:
> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=topfield+drive+caddy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
>

[Videot]

I added a 250GB drive to my PC the other day for $198. It seems a real pity
that most recorders have small hrive 80GB when it wouldn't cost much more to
greatly increase the capacity of these machine.

"Gilgamesh" <me@spam.me.not.com> wrote in message
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> "Fred At Home" <fredhome@fscans.cjb.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Videot" <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:42563164$0$29867$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>>> Many of the DVD recorders have inbuilt hard drives. Are these hard
>>> drives of the same type used in your PC?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>> If the answer is yes do any of these machines have the capabilty of
>>> adding a second drive in much the same way as you can plug an USB2 drive
>>> into your PC?
>>
>>
>> That is a really dumb way to add a permanent drive to a PC.
>
> I believe he was wondering about adding USB disk to the DVD recorder so
> that he could transfer it easily.
>
>>
>> Try this:
>> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=topfield+drive+caddy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
>>
>
>

[tony_h]

Videot wrote:
> I added a 250GB drive to my PC the other day for $198. It seems a
> real pity that most recorders have small hrive 80GB when it wouldn't
> cost much more to greatly increase the capacity of these machine.

The Topfield TF5000PVRt supports changing the drive, people have had success
with 300G drives now (I am running a 250G Maxtor PlusII drive with AAM
turned to silent, awesome result).
Of course, this PVR will ONLY record digital TV, but that is good enough for
me.
Regards
Tony
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