Recent content by AndrewB

Any crashes on mine are always either: Starting "TV Portal" will cause a crash about 1 in 4 times - seemingly no pattern to it but I'd say it's getting worse as months go by. Very occasionally when putting it under unusual workload: prolonged decrypt + web epg usage + recording + playing etc...

For anybody who wonders what "bad" looks like, here's some photos of what arrived: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx-D-iziaxi-WFZHb3ctT3RiYjA Indeed yes. I'm not a big ebay user - it's an easy hiding place for crooks and villains amongst the honest sellers. Do let me know if you find any...

Absolutely this. I had the same problem as the original poster, and following these instructions has fixed it on mine too. Excellent.

So, I hit ebay, and quickly regretted it... Opted for a mid-to-high priced unit, which looked in good condition on the photo and the description sounded good. When it arrived, there were several deep but blunt dents in the top cover, and the side of the cover showed some vicious sharp...

Solid advice and from someone who knows what they're talking about..! Shall hit the second hand market now to source another HD/R... Thanks

Our HDR-FOX T2 is the main media source in the house. (Mostly because the custom firmware is superb... Easy to schedule recordings via the web, and to decrypt and archive HD content off onto another media server.) Looking to make it a bit slicker in terms multi-room setup. How would you do it...

Yes, 64GB volatile cache RAM. It's an enterprise-grade auto tiering architecture though, so similar in principle to an SSHD but built from discrete components. Sorry for being slightly off-topic; I just thought it was an interesting example of how complex a hybrid SSD tiering algorithm can be...

Thanks to everybody for an interesting and technical debate. I'm probably not going to take the SSHD route, after some thought; but it's an interesting technical question anyway... Thanks, that's the model range I was looking at (edit: if I go non-SSHD). The price per GB is similar at 4TB, so...

According to the article on Wikipedia, SSHD drives implement the caching algorithm on-board, so would present themselves as a normal single SATA drive to the host. I've not found any detailed technical information though, so some of this is conjecture... Can anybody give some details on how the...

I think the advantage of NOOBS is that it's one unified download, and after that you can easily recover (or re-install a different OS) using just the Pi. For example, the normal process of flashing Raspbian is very different to flashing RaspBMC. This kind of thing can be a bit off-putting to...

That's cool. I've not looked through that shop before. I've got the Pibow case at home, and a Pibox Toxic case for a setup at work... But we might be expanding our Pi empire at work, in which case that modmypi stacking case will be just the job!

Actually, OpenELEC _is_ one of those two XBMC flavours that you mentioned as being included in the NOOBS distribution. Raspbian is the primary general purpose OS for the Pi - you probably don't want Raspbian if all you're interested in is XBMC. Much easier to pick one of the NOOBS XBMC builds...

Yes, that worried me too. It's why I chose OpenELEC over Raspbmc: as I say, OpenELEC doesn't use a swapfile, so it's very unlikely to be making any writes to the SD card. Hence survives the power being pulled rather rudely. Teaching a non-power-user how to shut it down gracefully wasn't an...

Sorry I missed that, you're quite right.

Yes, I have an early Model B Pi, which ran XBMC powered off our TV's USB port with no trouble. Yes, if you don't need wired Ethernet (e.g. USB WiFi) then a Model A will be fine, as 256MB is enough. And the Model A has lower power requirements, although I guess adding a WiFi adapter will offset...