2Tb Drive in Amstrad HD Sky+

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2Tb Drive in Amstrad HD Sky+

Postby wrenlea » Sat May 08, 2010 4:53 pm

I hope this is the right place to post a brief report on my 2TB drive.........
Just over a week ago I got a new Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache drive gor my HD Sky box
The version of copy+ did not recognise the size of drive. Within hours of asking, Stuart sent me the alpha version for which i am most grateful.
It worked brilliantly and the new drive is in the box.
Programmes amounting to 71% free at 500GB suddenly became 95% free :)
The drive is virtually silent. The EPG is at times slow but I expected this and it is not too much to accept for this amazing space.
Interestingly I made a note of the size of some programmes on the drive....
BBC HD Ashes to Ashes (1hr 3mins) 4784 Mbs
Sky 1 HD Lost (1hr 3mins) 8225 Mbs
ScyFi HD V (1hr 3mins 4178 Mbs
Sky1 HD Stargate Universe (1hr 3mins) 3941 Mbs

Does this show the compression on the BBC and SciFi is higher and that Lost is of higher quality than Stargate Universe?
I read a while ago the BBC was compressing its programs more although the quality still seems great to me.

Thanks again Stuart and Copy + gets a 5/5 from me :D

Peter
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