USB External drive advice

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lilelvis2000 replied

8 June 2012, 11:43
Nothing that I can see. Apparently the TV is very fussy about the drives it can use. I figured until the firmware improves I could turn the power management off on the drive.
The drive does spin up..but seems like the TV just isn't waiting that extra half-second before timing out.
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doodab replied

8 June 2012, 07:54
Is this not set on the host i.e. the TV?
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lilelvis2000 started a topic USB External drive advice

7 June 2012, 20:35
USB External drive advice

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I have a Samsung Smart which has a PVR builtin to it. I went out and bought a 2TB external drive from Novatech. It is essentially a 2TB Seagate 3.5" HDD in an aluminium case. But it has one big problem, it goes to sleep after 5min. idle and the TV then can't access it. I don't know why, must be a bug in the TV. It spins back up find when attached to my laptop.
So what I need now is to return it. And then buy a USB HDD which can be set not to spin down. Needs to be 1TB+.

Any experience and recommendations.
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