Gamble indeed, mine WD20EURX may now be acting up. It worked fine since March 13 in a Max5 Enclosure. Now, I either have a memory leak or it's the drive. I'm getting audio and video breakup that are currently cured by a restart/clearmybox on the HR44-700. I can't say for sure it is the drive, as I restarted 72 hours ago and all is fine, but had many corrupted recordings. Live was fine.Things look fine for now, but if it happens again soon, I have an EZRX in my wishlist.
Excerpt describing the problem from another post:
This problem started about a week ago. I first noticed it on a recording of Mike and Mike in the Morning (209). It started as a slight stutter, very, very slight that would come and go every 20 or 30 seconds or so. As time progressed, (15 minutes or so), I began to get full audio breakup...missing syllables along with pixellation of the video, but not of the type caused by loss of signal. I would sometimes see an entire face go "negative", along with a second long hole in the audio. The problem continued throughout the recording. It was not present "live".
I then saw it on two different network recorded shows, USA and TNT. I then saw it on a movie, wherein it lasted for 30 minutes off and on, and then disappeared for the remainder of the movie.
Then it began happening on most recordings,but not all. In all cases it would become progressively worse over time, and then (in the same recording), suddenly cure itself. It would then show up on other recordings of other shows (but not all recordings).
Hoping it wasn't a failing external drive (that is only a few months old), I did a CLEARMYBOX (which had not been done in several months). The problem was solved (no disk errors on reboot), the old recordings are still pixellated video with audio holes, but all new recordings since the clearmybox have been perfect for about 36 hours. (Now about 72 hours)
So what do you think, Rich, should I order the other drive? !rolling