Choppy Video?

[Darren King]

I agree with Peter. I have tried several types as well and no luck. Stick to PATA IDE hard disks - they are still plentiful

[BrentonSpear]

Plentiful? I have been struggling to get a 500GB drive. The only 1 I can now find is the SV35 ones.

[BrentonSpear]

The Seagate SV35 says it is an "Ultra ATA 100" interface. Is this the same as PATA and will it work?

Link to details of drive below:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/data...v35_7200_2.pdf

[Darren King]

Plentiful? I have been struggling to get a 500GB drive. The only 1 I can now find is the SV35 ones.

Well, yes, PATA is a dying breed, but I guess it depends who your supplier is. I count several from www.cpl.net.au that are suitable. However I cannot see PATA completely dying off for a while yet as there is too much hardware out there (not including consumer PC and older TiVo) that rely on it.

If you are really adventurous (or desperate) you *could* even use a PATA 2.5" laptop hard disk with appropriate adaptor plug.

In answer to your other question, UATA-100 is a Parallel ATA (PATA) interface and will work fine.

[petestrash]

Brenton, your profile does not say where you are. But if your in Austalia try a search on staticice.com.au.

This is a search for 500gb IDE drives. You will find plenty of vendors.

Peter.

PS, You might want to update your profile with your City, State. It helps with support.

[BrentonSpear]

Thanks Peter.