I find a fairly quick test of the following USB Ext HDD on our DP-S1 running 01.05.350 f/w works
Hello fellow beyonwizers! Long time reader first time contributor here. Thank you so much to all the forum members sharing tips and tricks, has helped me many times
Recently my newly purchased P2 1TB (upgrade from a P1) started playing up locking on timer wake. I was going to ask Mark for help as I'm in Perth and it seems likely power supply related and as I understand he is a complete guru on these issues. But seeing as it was still under warranty I decided to send it back for repair. The prospect of being stuck without a PVR for some weeks has made me convert my H1 into a recording machine, thing I've being putting off because of the perceived incompatibility with newer, bigger drives. Sub3R's post gave me hope though with this current model Seagate and I went ahead and bought the 2 TB model.
This thing works like a charm! After I let my H1 format it and register it is fully functional. On the H1 all systems are go: recording, timeshifting, caching of IceGuide so it's available straight after boot, WizPnP streaming. I was able to transfer some recordings off the P2 to the recording folder and have them available and streamable on the H1 after forced indexing. I can even make edits to the files (trimming, bookmarks) on the external HDD while connected to the P2 and have them seamlessly recognised when plugged back to the H1.
In fact the only thing I couldn't reliably do is transfer large number of recordings continuously overnight, I had to restart the stalled copying. Maybe it's due to the faulty P2 but I suspect it only occurs when the batch transfer includes large recordings say over 5GB. With the tiny transfer rate of the wizzes such files would take over half an hour each and maybe some power saving kicks in on the Seagate not having received a stay awake instruction for this long, or something. Of course I know Wiz recordings are saved as sequences of 32MB files so this theory seems suspect. But a few times after the transfer stalled (and Wiz hang) I found the drive in some power saving mode with the LED slowly pulsating like on a sleeping laptop.
As sub3R noted the drive doesn't have an off switch but this is not a problem as it turns off and on with the wiz. The LED is blinking when accessing the drive and steady otherwise and the power saving mode I described above doesn't kick in normally even sitting in file player or settings menu for hours. I have to note that having read these USB related posts I very carefully follow the disconnect - reconnect sequences and haven't had a problem with the connected drive not being available in file player yet. With the H1 I always disconnect - reconnect with the unit off.
Now if only I can find a way of mounting this thing on windows so I could (quickly 30MB/s as opposed to 3MB/s) move some mp4 movies off my pc and into the content folder where they would be streamable on the WizPnP network. I understand such a thing could be done on *nix or mac but there must be a windows solution to this, surely a third party driver or some such should be able to take care of the nonstandard FAT32 sector sizes. Have any of you experimented with such utilities? I want to leave the file system as is formatted by the wiz without any partitioning so it can all be visible on the H1 as a registered drive and therefore streamable. In absence of such a windows utility can any of you recommend some tested linux live distros that would write to a wiz formatted USB connected drive and read from NTFS disks?
I hope this helps the next person who comes looking for a compatible current model USB drive
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