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Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 09:09 pm:    Edit Post
I have a Panasonic E85-DMR machine. I am reasonably pleased after several months. It is quirky; the Panasonic engineers give you reason to curse every so often. And the UI is very complicated/un-initutive.

Question: With all these store bought PVRs, how come the harddisk does not degrade over time with the repeated storage/erase, storage/erase? With most computers, you have a defrag the harddrive every so often to keep it running somewhat optimally. I see no way to defrag this Pany's harddrive.
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Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 10:59 am:    Edit Post
Your only choice on the E-85 is to completely reformat the drive. That is why many of us purchase the -Ram in order to easily remove programs we wish to save but not burn to a DVD. Keep in mind that if you routinely erase all the recordings on your HDD a defrag is not really necessary since the E-85 file allocation system seems to write quite well from the beginning (poor choice of words I know) of the HDD, unlike a computer where you essentially never erase all the data from your hard drive.


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