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Can I put the HD froom a skyHD box in my laptop

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  • 27-10-2013 8:33pm
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    brokenarms
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    I have a fairly old vaio laptop which only has a 100gb HD. The skybox has 500gb storage .

    Is it possible to swap them .


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    yoyo
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    brokenarms wrote: »
    I have a fairly old vaio laptop which only has a 100gb HD. The skybox has 500gb storage .

    Is it possible to swap them .

    Afaik the sky boxes use 3.5" desktop drives so likely nope :( . I think many Sky boxes also use the IDE/PATA standard so would be unusable with modern motherboards without IDE ports

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    [Deleted User]
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    No is the short answer.

    The long answer is that Sky+ boxes use 3.5" hard disks as used in desktop PCs. The disks in the Sky+ HD boxes are indeed SATA disks (the SD boxes are IDE), but they won't physically fit in a laptop.


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    wil
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    ^^^ but they work fine in pcs, older ones ide, newer 120Gb+ are sata.
    Recordings are encrypted so little point trying to back them up.


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