Old Bell PVR 9200 made obsolete

Bell (ExpressVu) Satellite TV sent us a replacement PVR, and told us to dispose of the old one. I opened it up and extracted the 250GB HDD. Not to mention the power cord and other hardware. After some fettling with Diskpart to Clean and so on, I installed into the free HDD into my PC and I used it to make a backup. UPDATE: I ran some tests on the old recycled HDD, and it may be the slowest HDD ever made. I got 5 Mbps I/O. That's a dozen times slower than any old HDD. Not sure why. Maybe Bell Expressvu or Echostar made some firmware changes to make it better for PVR use.