Sky+ Hard Drive Upgrade

I've had my Sky+ box for a couple of years and never found that I needed more space. Since Jen moved in back in the Summer there have been two of us vying for space which has seen the free space dwindle. So with Christmas approaching I thought that I'd go for an upgrade.

I thought it would just be a matter of buying the biggest, fattest drive that I could find, levering the case apart, plonking it in and performing some sort of factory reset to format it. But for once I had a nose around on the Internet for advice before I made my purchase and was glad that I did.

The Digital Spy Forums alluded to there being good drives and bad drives. There was also mention of specific firmware numbers but no Plain English guide. A bit of nosing around took me to this Sky+ Upgrade Guide that had a long list of compatible drives. Following that guide and a couple of other Googles I came to the conclusion that the Samsung V120CE (HA250JC) 250GB 5,400rpm disk seems to be the favourite at the moment so I ordered one. As I'm typing this I'm waiting for the delivery man who's meant to be here before 9:30..

So it'll be Torx driver at the ready tonight after I've watched Robin Hood from Saturday night. I'm planning to try Copy+ to copy all the existing data across to the new drive but it doesn't hurt to have nothing to lose! :)