Deanster
09-27-2008, 11:06
A month or so ago, I bought a new TiVo HD for $250, and it's been a wonderful return to TiVo, after struggling for a couple years with Comcast's deplorable DVR.
However, it only came with 20 hours of HD recording capability, on a 160GB hard drive.
A little bit of searching brought me to a couple guides for upgrading, and I decided to take the plunge. $100 at NewEgg for a 750GB drive from Western Digital (their 'green' model - low power and low noise, which are both very good for a DVR), and a half-hour of set-up (plus an hour and a half of copying the old disk to the new while I grilled burgers), and it's working perfectly, with over 100 hours of JD capacity, and several hundred hours of standard definition recording.
Highly recommended purchase and upgrade. For $250 + $100, I have almost as much capacity as TiVo's new 'HD XL' product, which sells for $600. For another $20, I could have had the identical capacity.
WinMFS is the software that does the copying, though the instructions on their site are... sub-standard. http://www.mfslive.org/
The instructions on Engadget are better, though not nearly as detailed.
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/
However, it only came with 20 hours of HD recording capability, on a 160GB hard drive.
A little bit of searching brought me to a couple guides for upgrading, and I decided to take the plunge. $100 at NewEgg for a 750GB drive from Western Digital (their 'green' model - low power and low noise, which are both very good for a DVR), and a half-hour of set-up (plus an hour and a half of copying the old disk to the new while I grilled burgers), and it's working perfectly, with over 100 hours of JD capacity, and several hundred hours of standard definition recording.
Highly recommended purchase and upgrade. For $250 + $100, I have almost as much capacity as TiVo's new 'HD XL' product, which sells for $600. For another $20, I could have had the identical capacity.
WinMFS is the software that does the copying, though the instructions on their site are... sub-standard. http://www.mfslive.org/
The instructions on Engadget are better, though not nearly as detailed.
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/