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Originally Posted by nealbran 
I believe as per another poster on box resets its all power related as my WD10EVCS is the same as below and the box can't handle it I believe.
"If you look at the specs. on the top of the drive fitted by Sky:
300GB Seagate DB35.3: +5v 0.72A, +12v 0.52A
Whereas the replacement drives that didn't work are:
1TB Western Digital WD10EACS: +5v 0.70A, +12v 0.55A
400GB Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80: +5v 0.78A, +12v 0.98A
and the one that does work is:
1TB Samsung HD103UJ: +5v 0.70A, +12v 0.50A
So maybe the issue is the 12v power consumption?
My hunch is that any drive which consumes more than 0.52A current at +12v is likely to fail"
Cheers
Neal |
I have just opened my brand new samsung Sky HD box to upgrade. I had a spare WD10 EVCS which works great in the thomson I have, and have read that these don't work well in the samsung which previous posters have said have a Seagate drive in.
Anyhow the drive in my Samsung is a WD 3200 AVJS which has settings as :
5VDC - 0.65A
12VDC - 0.50A
The WD 10 EVCS settings are :
5VDC - 0.70A
12VDC - 0.55A
I will report if it works, but has anyone upgraded a Samsung that had a WD disk as the original rather than a Seagate and if so what have they used?