How to upgrade Tivo HDD

cvrefugee · April 13th, 2007, 08:14 AM

I found this tutorial and it looks involving but doable - http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php

Have any of you successfully upgraded the HDD in your Tivo?

Jacobfox · April 13th, 2007, 07:51 PM

I've wanted to, but I think I'll either hold off until I get a newer one for HD (and can hence upgrade the old with minimal consequences if I blow it) or just never do it.

RoamingGnome · April 17th, 2007, 06:16 PM

I've switched the HDD in my DirecTiVo using one of those instructions (forget what). The original drive began to sound like a grinder (the thing was like 7 yro). It was relatively smooth given that I'm a total linux newb. I opted to just replace the drive and mirror all existing content. Put the old drive away in case s***.

cvrefugee · April 19th, 2007, 06:41 PM

I did it last night, worked flawlessly! I replaced my friend's 40GB model with a 250GB Seagate drive ($53 shipped from www.frys.com). Copying the data from the old drive to the new one took about five hours, I really didn't expect it to take so long.

RoamingGnome · April 19th, 2007, 09:03 PM

Yea if you want to preserve all existing recordings it takes a bitch of a time to make the transfer. I think mine took right about that same amount of time as well.

hokiethang · April 19th, 2007, 10:04 PM

Yeah, I've done it to two Tivos, and it worked flawlessly both times. It's really easy to do, and if you decide to use dual drives, weaknees.com has a kit that provides a bracket and mounting hardware (along with printed instructions I think).

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RoamingGnome Joined: Feb 13th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: East Coast USA Posts: 226 Car: 01 Grand Cherokee V8, 97 Thunderbird Rep Power: 12	I've switched the HDD in my DirecTiVo using one of those instructions (forget what). The original drive began to sound like a grinder (the thing was like 7 yro). It was relatively smooth given that I'm a total linux newb. I opted to just replace the drive and mirror all existing content. Put the old drive away in case s***.

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cvrefugee Joined: Aug 16th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Corona, CA Age: 28 Posts: 3,449 Car: 2005 Scion xB Rep Power: 60	I did it last night, worked flawlessly! I replaced my friend's 40GB model with a 250GB Seagate drive ($53 shipped from www.frys.com). Copying the data from the old drive to the new one took about five hours, I really didn't expect it to take so long.

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RoamingGnome Joined: Feb 13th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: East Coast USA Posts: 226 Car: 01 Grand Cherokee V8, 97 Thunderbird Rep Power: 12	Yea if you want to preserve all existing recordings it takes a bitch of a time to make the transfer. I think mine took right about that same amount of time as well.

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