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Old 25-07-2008, 11:22 PM
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elgato and external HD.......?
Hi

thinking of purchasing an elgato diversity as a secondary PVR to my Topfield 5000 and also to watch a bit of mobile TV (ie - in bed). As I will not be using it to create a HT set-up (for now) and therefore will be running it from my macbook pro, I was thinking of using an external self-powered (off firewire 800) HD to record and watch shows - I've only got 8 gig left on my MBPro HD!

My questions are:
Will it record to this OK - it won't lag or lose recording etc?
and
IS this an OK solution with a self-powered drive - the drive will obviously be working quite hard/continuously to record and view recorded shows....

Thanks

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Old 27-07-2008, 10:56 PM
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hmmm..........not having much luck getting to the bottom of this one
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Old 27-07-2008, 11:07 PM
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I record to an external drive off my mac mini using elgato - no problem.

Don't know about a self powered drive though, sorry.
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Old 27-07-2008, 11:19 PM
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You should be able to record to any drive fine, as long as it's Mac formatted. I've been recording to an external drive for years.
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Old 27-07-2008, 11:22 PM
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Should be totally fine. Your battery life will suffer when not plugged into mains though (of course).

I record everything from EyeTV to an external HD. No issues at all. I leave it plugged in. I'm not sure what would happen if you pulled the drive out and EyeTV wanted to record, then you plugged it in later. You'd hope it'd just record to the local drive, then go back to using the external when it's there.
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