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[arboristman]

report your pvr results here.
let us know what hard drive your using.how easy it is to setup and use.your likes and dislikes about recording and any limitations features/missing features of everything having to do with the personal video recording of the 8000hd please.

[arboristman]

suggested hard drives reported as working on the sv 8000hd:

SUCCESS with SimpleTech - 1TB !!!!


Simpletech 360 or 500G

Lacie 500g

Any size or the Simpletech SP-U35

Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500/1tb

Acomdata 509 series USB2 only case

SP-35 (BOM No. 96300-41001-013 for the 500G model)

Vox 500GB usb 2.0

Seagate Freeagent 750 GB model and it works well. It takes a few MINUTES for it to initialize when plugged in and turned on and you need to record at least 2 minutes of video for HD (or else the recording wont play back) but other than that it has worked pretty good.

SATA Drive to USB convertor from cyberguys dot com. It's a unique gizmo because you just set any SATA drive, 2.5 OR 3.5 inside the cradle - vertically - like setting bread in a toaster - and BOOM - the thing worked on my HD8000. Of course I used swissknife to format the drive first to FAT32. The thing saw the drive I put in it right away.

Now with SATA - you get the benefit of slamming in there a RAPTOR 10,000 RPM drive. Yes, it's only 160 GB (WD Raptors) but I don't have any delays or hanging like I sometimes have with some IDE 7200 RPM drives.
On Cyberguys - search for part #163 0139 - it's made by Vantec - 2.5/3.5 SATA HDD Dock to USB 2.0

Lacie 500g

Titanium 500GB

Seagate 320GB External Hard Drive
USB 2.0, 8MB Cache, 7200 RPM

Maxtor Onetouch III firewire400/USB 2.0 300GB

Cavalry
320GB USB 2.0 External Drive

LaCie ..brick-RED 250Gb USB 2.0 HD

seagate deskagent 320

Seagate 320GB Sata II
External Vantec case with eSATA + USB 2.0
Formatted with format32.exe

Cavalry 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM 16MB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive..formatted with FAT32 by unit

400GB Seagate SATAII, Vantec eSATA/USB2 enclosure works great, but SV8000HD will not format the disk, message 'unknown USB'. I had to do it on the computer and it worked fine after that.

MAXTOR One Touch III 200GB USB 2.0 7200rpm 8MB

Simpletech 500GH External Hard Drive
Formatted FAT32 with acronis dish director suite
Plug in and it recognize right away, record and play back SD/HD/mpeg2/mpeg4 without any problem. When accessing HDD while in sleep mode, it take 1-2sec for the hd8000 to wake up the HDD, but it working perfectly
SimpleTech Part #: SP-U35/500
Capacity: 500 GB
Interface: USB2.0
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPMs
Buffer Size: 8192 KB


Buffalo 250G (Sata inside) USB2

Vantec USB 2.0 full size drive enclosure with WD320GB or WD500GB 7200 RPM IDE drives

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB

SEAGATE 500G 7200rpm

Vantec Nexstar 3 SATA ESATA USB 2.0 NST-360SU-BL

Seagate 250 GB HD SATA II

Kingston 1Gb data traveler DTI/1GB

comstar (not platinum) model number: CO-HDE1-1TB 1.0TB external USB 2.0 Hard drive

Beyond Micro / Mobile / 250GB / 7200 / 8MB

Enermax Laureate enclosure with a WD hard drive


Seagate Barrac 10 ST3500630A from fly in my old Maxter One Touch, formated with sv8k, working perfectly.

[arboristman]

reported NOT working hdds on the sonicview 8000ds:

Comstar platinum 320g -- DO NOT WORK

Samtack CO-HED8-80g ---- DO NOT WORK (generic store brand)

ICY BOX external usb case --- DO NOT WORK (radio shack)

Tried 3 other generic aluminum usb 2.0 cases --- NONE WORKED

Comstar Platinum 250GB --> DO NOT WORK (after many tests) !

Hitachi 100GB 2.5" in pexagontech USB2 "Store-it-Drive"

Mad Dog enclosure with a WD hard drive

Acomdata 750G HybriDrive

[conill]

Hello,
I am using an 8gb usb flash drive. I dont use pvr function much and that its enough for me it holds a whole movie even if recorded in hd (regular size movie) i recently discovered that you can watch another channel while recording but it seems to do so only if you watch same tp that you are recording i think?!>> great receiver good quality!!!!

[spidermann]

I am using LaCie 500G, just plug in and hit record and works- but no REC icon on screen shows up as it says in menu.

Also seems to screw up my EPG can not exit info section properly.

Can not make new folders to seperate sports from movies etc, while i did make new folder i have no way of placing any movies in them- so i have to navigate through hundreds of titles to find what i want to replay.

Sometimes while watching a show the icon on the receiver is on even though i was not viewing something or recording, but acts as if i was and i can't exit or change channels, then screen will go black or i have to do a hard reboot.

I can not view other channels while recordind - there might be 10 channels i can view but they are weird channels i have never seen before. But sometimes i can record a porno and view the rest of the porno channels and sometimes they are all black.

Lately i noticed the hard drive making a louder noise then usual, not sure if it is because it is almost full.

Not all that sure if i am happy with the resultsof my hard drive- but i do like the fact i can record while i sleep and watch my programs at my own leisure and fast forward the garbage. But if my car ran like this i would return it.

[hiestroller]

You can add this one to the list of NOT working:

Western Digital My Passport Essential WDME2500TN 250GB USB 2.0 Black External Hard Drive


I was able to use the following:
Freeagent 500GB Barracuda 7200 USB 2.0 3.5E 8MB

I attempted to format the Western Digital w/SV8000HD & using swissknife to no avail.

The Barracuda was easily formatted and used by the SV8000HD.

[annoyed]

Acomdata Samba does NOT work..
also does the vantec nexstar CX work? I just ordered it !

[digitalsly]

Atttempted to use a Acomdata 504 drive. Locks up both the drive and H8000. I recorded several movies and it stopped working and she deleted ALL files.

[OstrichSak]

Has anyone else encountered a strange 'Booting' issue? I bought a Buffalo 1TB DriveStation (2x500) and so far it seems to work alright. I plugged it into the 8000 and selected format and things seemed to be fine. I can record and playback shows/movies in both SD and HD and am even able to fast forward and rewind w/o any issues. The problem I'm having is that, for whatever reason, my receiver appears to be rebooting itself and then hangs on the boot screen. I tried another receiver and it's the same result. It will work fine and I will set movies and shows to record then, the next day or in some cases several days later I will come down to the theater to see that the display on the 8000 reads 'Booting' and this is where it has hung for many hours or days. I had a 250gb HDD in another enclosure connected to a receiver in our bedroom and it never did this random reboot issue but the drive had other issues as I wasn't once able to replay a recorded program w/o it freezing and corrupting the file. I'm thinking that something is triggering the receiver in the theater to reboot (what I'm not exactly sure) and for some reason it's trying to boot from the external HDD as if it were a bootable or primary drive. I know if my flash drive is in and it reboots it will load the menu w/o any issue as if it were an extended drive or something.

So, has anyone else had this problem? Is it my enclosure or ?? What is causing the receiver to reboot no matter which one of my 8000's I have in place? It must have something to do with the Buffalo as that's the only constant but I can't seem to figure out why the HDD enclosure would cause a random reboot like that. I plan to pull the two 500's out and try them individually in separate receivers but ideally this other one would work. I tried to use SwissKnife to set the Buffalo to Extended so if it trigger a reboot during a recording (assuming that's when it's doing it) I would lose that program but not the next scheduled recordings. If it wasn't for this random and odd issue this 1TB would be perfect for my needs.

[JessFTA]

useing a simpletech 500G. works great, very easy and user friendly!

[out4trout]

timeshift is not working. anyone have that problem? i can record something then watch it later without much problem. is a little difficult to set up a recording for some reason and i do not see the "record" screen mentioned above. is there any way to set up a "season pass" or anything where it will record a show at the same time every day or whatever?
is it possible to set up a tivo to the SV 8k? i know that if i record with the tivo or watch tv thru the tivo it will not be in HD...is that correct? anyone done this?

[kajod41]

I'm using until now the WD500 usb simple and is working fine only I did a format with the SV before try to record anything,also a did some test with USB flash memories and the same results.
WESTERN DIGITAL 500 GIG is working for me without problems .
Only I'm seraching about how can put some cooling system extra because the receiver is working to hot depend the used time.

[cribber]

Originally Posted by kajod41

I'm using until now the WD500 usb simple and is working fine only I did a format with the SV before try to record anything,also a did some test with USB flash memories and the same results.
WESTERN DIGITAL 500 GIG is working for me without problems .
Only I'm seraching about how can put some cooling system extra because the receiver is working to hot depend the used time.

Which version of sv8000 do you have? V1 or V2?

[kajod41]

My sv8000 is V2 with fan incorporate

[cribber]

Originally Posted by kajod41

My sv8000 is V2 with fan incorporate

V2 should have no heat problems since it has the built in fan. I have v1 and v2.
v1 was fixed for heat problems just by an external fan blowing over the case. Since you live in a warmer place than I do, make sure that your stb can breath. By that I mean,
make sure you stb is not close to other heat producing electronics. There are cooling pads for laptops but you should not need that.

[out4trout]

what are the capabilities of this PVR? i cant seem to get it to do what i want...anyone modify or hook up otherwise a tivo to their FTA system? how is that working?

[enrigonz]

Originally Posted by out4trout

what are the capabilities of this PVR? i cant seem to get it to do what i want...anyone modify or hook up otherwise a tivo to their FTA system? how is that working?

As a real PVR it really sucks. It's nothing like Tivo, nothing like Dish or cable's proprietary PVRs. I really hope it gets better one day. I could use this box just as a PVR for my local HD channels and be happy if the PVR functions were a little better. All-n-all................ IT SUCKS AS A PVR!

[lzolnier]

Originally Posted by enrigonz

As a real PVR it really sucks. It's nothing like Tivo, nothing like Dish or cable's proprietary PVRs. I really hope it gets better one day. I could use this box just as a PVR for my local HD channels and be happy if the PVR functions were a little better. All-n-all................ IT SUCKS AS A PVR!

What are you unhappy with exactly? It records, it rewinds and can be easily set to record on a schedule, with the receiver turned off. What more do you really need? The only important feature that is missing imo is that, in most circumstances, you cannot record one channel and watch something else. It could also be a bit more organized in the file list area. I'm pretty satisfied with everything else on this PVR. It's basic, yes, but also very simple to use, doing what it was designed to do well - record.

[lzolnier]

I can also confirm that the Seagate Freeagent 500Gb works well with this pvr. But before you hook up the HD to the receiver, you should first hook it up to your computer , to prevent the drive from going into sleep mode (if it does, your receiver won't recognize the drive being in the USB port). After computer installation, go into the settings in the Freeagent's menu and disable the power-saving feature (set it to "never"), which will prevent the drive from going into its default sleep-mode (which is 15 mins. of inactivity). This should do the trick.

[enrigonz]

Originally Posted by lzolnier

What are you unhappy with exactly? It records, it rewinds and can be easily set to record on a schedule, with the receiver turned off. What more do you really need? The only important feature that is missing imo is that, in most circumstances, you cannot record one channel and watch something else. It could also be a bit more organized in the file list area. I'm pretty satisfied with everything else on this PVR. It's basic, yes, but also very simple to use, doing what it was designed to do well - record.

It records.......... that's it! If you want any functionality such as those found on Tivo or other smart PVRs, you will not find it with the SV8000. I record multiple shows at a time and it's a nightmare to go through a list of recorded shows and find which one is which...... I can go on for ever... let's not. Is a great receiver in many other ways, great picture, great support, etc. I wouldn't buy any other unless it provided a better PVR function.