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Title: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: frankie13 on May 09, 2016, 07:57:39 AM

can you reccomend a harddrive to put inside of it
                           thank you

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: pink_room on May 09, 2016, 04:59:57 PM

WD Green 3TB  works fine in my Q10, no noise and no heat.

Regards!

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: Nice Monkey on May 10, 2016, 07:20:00 AM

Quote from: pink_room on May 09, 2016, 04:59:57 PM

WD Green 3TB  works fine in my Q10, no noise and no heat.

WD Green is replaced by Blue. Also Pink is a good choice for the same reasons.
Seagate Desktop class HDD tend to make more noise which varies from unit to unit (due to vibrations).

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: PJDavis1970 on May 11, 2016, 10:34:29 AM

I had a spare WD red 6tb which was a standby for my NAS.  This went in with no issues at all.

- Connected drive via Sata to one of my windows machines.  Partitioned it and formatted.
- Inserted into Q10 Pro

Works fine.

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: duffers0 on May 15, 2016, 10:06:56 AM

Quote from: PJDavis1970 on May 11, 2016, 10:34:29 AM

I had a spare WD red 6tb which was a standby for my NAS.  This went in with no issues at all.

- Connected drive via Sata to one of my windows machines.  Partitioned it and formatted.
- Inserted into Q10 Pro

Works fine.
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New Q10pro just arrived so not familiar with these. I assume from above answer the HD needs external formatting ? Is this not possible from within the box itself using Android OS. Thanks

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: vxsys on May 15, 2016, 12:33:04 PM

Quote from: PJDavis1970 on May 11, 2016, 10:34:29 AM

I had a spare WD red 6tb which was a standby for my NAS.  This went in with no issues at all.

- Connected drive via Sata to one of my windows machines.  Partitioned it and formatted.
- Inserted into Q10 Pro

Works fine.

Is your Red 6tb or Red pro 6tb?
I have red pro version, is silent, but i hear some noise at writing.
I think because case is made from plastic.

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: stack on May 15, 2016, 01:57:59 PM

Quote from: duffers0 on May 15, 2016, 10:06:56 AM

New Q10pro just arrived so not familiar with these. I assume from above answer the HD needs external formatting ? Is this not possible from within the box itself using Android OS. Thanks

If the HDD is formated in NTFS + GPT additional formatting is not needed.
Android OS is not able to format any HDD.

Title: Re: HiMedia Q10 Pro harddrive
Post by: PJDavis1970 on May 16, 2016, 12:28:14 PM

Quote from: vxsys on May 15, 2016, 12:33:04 PM

Quote from: PJDavis1970 on May 11, 2016, 10:34:29 AM

I had a spare WD red 6tb which was a standby for my NAS.  This went in with no issues at all.

- Connected drive via Sata to one of my windows machines.  Partitioned it and formatted.
- Inserted into Q10 Pro

Works fine.

Is your Red 6tb or Red pro 6tb?
I have red pro version, is silent, but i hear some noise at writing.
I think because case is made from plastic.

Not the pro