OPENING A VIRGIN V6 BOX

welcome to my new video
were i show you how to open and whats inside a v6 box from virgin media

Music Credits
DonProducci - Sugar (SugarBear Beat)

[Tomsonic]

I can see why they did it this way round rather than having the HDD integrated into the set top box. If the HDD fails, they can easily replace the caddy without needing to dismantle the whole thing. But what if the main box dies? Could the HDD be transplanted to a new box so you can get all your recordings back?

[Meowserz.]

Thanks for the help couldn’t have done it without you

[BronyumHexofloride]

intresting to know, i was left with one by an ex housemate last year, never been touched his loss on a 1TB hdd in my eyes, my XB1 will be happy for the extra space

[TheSpotify]

Gotta love Virgin and their Tamper screws... Thankfully, I have the right bit to deal with these, as I found out the hard way when disassembling TiVo boxes (for their hard drives). Now I've just bought a V6 box to tear down.
If you can get them cheaply enough on eBay, they're a great source of cheap hard drives :).

[MattTester]

I have two of these, one is close enough for the disk noise to be annoying and the other is starting to show signs of disk issues. Would really like to upgrade them both to 1TB SSDs and keep the other disks to shove back in if and when they go back to VM.

[leewright]

wonder what nand flash it uses, , and close up photos of under heat sink please.! i know its a old video.

[devarsiratdas]

Hello does the Virgin V6 box (not the router) have a dedicated ethernet socket through which I could connect to my Network streamer listening to music like tidal?
Or am I forced to use the router going the ethernet way?

Many thanks

I don't want to connect via WiFi.

[paulwarren]

Recycling - house clearance have approx 15 500gb sata drives from the old units thrown out/away.!

[gavinrichardson]

Can the 1tb hard drive in these be reused to work in an external hard drive case? or are they coded?

[BudKingUK]

Judging from the way that caddy comes off theres going to be a variation of the V6 without a hard drive probably going to be issued for multi room with one mother box with a hard drive and one to several daughter boxes connected via network allowing access to the same recordings from any room.

[low-res-nic]

Its interesting that Virgin decided they want a local HDD instead of the Cloud based version that all the other EOS Boxes from Liberty global use! i think every box from LibGlob has that Port on the underside, but its covered with a warranty void sticker :(

[scog]

cool ive been doing this for years with sky boxes lol

[Rick-vmbl]

Was it really worth it for a very basic, <£30 hard drive which has a life expectancy of 2 years?

[TheSpotify]

Great teardown video. I've done this on both Sky+HD and Virgin TiVo boxes before, seems like the V6 box is quite similar then. If I can get a few on the cheap from eBay then it'll give me a source of 1TB laptop hard drives :).

[jackturk]

Could I use that 1tb hard drive for my ps4

[RichMantaray]

wait 6 months before u do this after end of contract. they ask for the box back and if they dont get it its £50 fee

[lewisbrumby]

Cancelled my TV package recently and was told they didn't need the 2 boxes back.. What to do with them..

[ukzrcil]

Just a tip for you the sticker on the back comes off just run a stanley around the edge and take off to revel main board screws. Also pop off the shiny black screen at the front that you see the lights through

[prav]

Thanks - this helped me remove the hard drive

[billboforty]

Is there a way to remove the actual hdd from the tray? There are 4 screws on the side which refuse to move.