Salvage Hard Drive from Sky Box

[yolosnail]

I was recently looking at Gumtree for some tools and came across a whole section of just Sky +HD boxes, people are literally just giving them away.

The ones with the 500gb hard drives people have them listed for free, but for the 2tb ones they are going for around £10.

Would it be worth getting a couple to salvage the hard drives out of them or do you think it would be too much of a risk? I presume with it being a DVR that the hard drives would be rated for 24/7 operation so they have to be half decent drives

[aezakmi]

If you're sure those boxes have a hard drive go for them

[Fasauceome]

use them for game drives that use cloud storage. that way if a game fails you still have the save file and you can just reinstall on a drive that works, albeit there's a bit of a headache that comes with that process.

[Razor Blade]

12 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

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I presume with it being a DVR that the hard drives would be rated for 24/7 operation so they have to be half decent drives

All I can say is don't get your hopes up... a lot of consumer gear with spindle drives will likely have a regular desktop drive in it.

 

But if they're free? Can't go wrong there.

[yolosnail]

16 hours ago, fasauceome said:

use them for game drives that use cloud storage. that way if a game fails you still have the save file and you can just reinstall on a drive that works, albeit there's a bit of a headache that comes with that process.

I was just going to use them for my media server that I rip all my DVDs and Blu Rays to, so if it fails I'm not really losing any data as I can just re-rip them.