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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1047380" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>FWIW, putting larger HDD's into Sky boxes of various generations was once a "popular" hobby for many (including myself) and it generally worked reasonably well until the Sky HD+ ones came - from then on it was/is a quite risky business as even fitting larger dedicated AV-optimised HDDs often didn't work for more than a few months <em>(as I can confirm from my own experience of fitting 2TB HDDs in 890s <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad :(" data-shortname=":(" /></em>). So, I think that the 890 <em>(and possibly even the early 1.5TB 895s???) </em>firmware could not deal with anything bigger than the OEM fits, and it was only when the 2TB 895s came along that we had a reliable 2TB Sky HD+ unit (ours has now had more than 4 years of pretty heavy use and still works much as it did when I got it).</p><p></p><p>But now there are only the Sky Q boxes, and I don't know much more than that I understand that some (all??) have 2TB HDDs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1047380, member: 176704"] FWIW, putting larger HDD's into Sky boxes of various generations was once a "popular" hobby for many (including myself) and it generally worked reasonably well until the Sky HD+ ones came - from then on it was/is a quite risky business as even fitting larger dedicated AV-optimised HDDs often didn't work for more than a few months [I](as I can confirm from my own experience of fitting 2TB HDDs in 890s :([/I]). So, I think that the 890 [I](and possibly even the early 1.5TB 895s???) [/I]firmware could not deal with anything bigger than the OEM fits, and it was only when the 2TB 895s came along that we had a reliable 2TB Sky HD+ unit (ours has now had more than 4 years of pretty heavy use and still works much as it did when I got it). But now there are only the Sky Q boxes, and I don't know much more than that I understand that some (all??) have 2TB HDDs. [/QUOTE]
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