Maximum USB Hare Disk Drive Size Supported by the H1

[00dc2]

What is the maximum USB Hard Disk Drive size supported by the H1?? I have ordered a H1 but want to know if i need to stay within some limit or wotever

Thanks

[00dc2]

ok, found the USB HDD faq under the non H1 section...

http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/phpbb2/viewt ... c&start=30

should be the same for H1 as for P1 etc etc

[tonymy01]

Depends, are you registering the drive as a recording drive on the unit? If so, this is a unique feature of the H1. But I would imagine "about" 500G might be the limit for a recording drive, although people have managed to get 1TB drives into their P1/S1s, so who knows really?
It only has a single tuner remember, so not quite the same cool features as the P1/S1/P2 in terms of streaming back to other devices for example. Are you really going to fill 500G in a hurry? I have had about 500G on my S1 for almost a year, and still haven't filled it (but have gotten close with 70G remaining a few times!)

[00dc2]

Yes i am referring to USB drives for use as the main recording drive used by the H1

do you think that its the case that if i buy a drive over 500G then the H1 might not recognise it at all? or it will just recognise the first 500G?

I'd hate to buy a drive then have to downgrade to a smaller one...

does anyone know where i can find out what the "Official" Beyonwiz position on this aspect of the H1 is ? as the manual doesnt mention anything about a USB size limit. only that any usb 2.0 device is accepted as long as it draws less than 500mA.

[tonymy01]

Official is 500G. Unofficial is yet to be determined, but the filesystem checking schemes are going to run out of puff trying to check a damaged filestructure at very large sizes (not enough RAM).
It certainly doesn't just have a hard limit on 500G, well, not for the P1/S1..