Using an external hard disk drive with your eBox Stealth HD





The eBox Stealth HD supports external USB hard drives for recording of programs, pausing of live TV, and playing back various media. To use this successfully, your hard disk will need to meet a few requirements:

1. It should have external power. Drives that are powered from the USB port will either not spin up, work unreliably, or cause insufficient power to go to your LNBFs/switch causing poor or no reception.

2. Faster is better, although I've seen no problems with 5400rpm drives.

3. The drive should be formatted for FAT32. You may need to use a 3rd party formatter to format your drive with this structure. Windows XP will not format large capacity drives with FAT32.

4. The drive should not have any sort of hardware partitioning, encryption, bootable partitions, or other weirdness. A lot of manufacturers like to put a partition on the drive to enable certain features that most people don't want or don't need. One of the best ways to ensure your external drive doesn't have any of these things is to buy an external powered USB to IDE or SATA enclosure, and then buy a bare IDE or SATA drive to match your enclosure. Put them together (should take 5-10 minutes and a screwdriver) and you've probably saved yourself a lot of money and headache.

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