A good source of TIVO expansion stuff is www.weaknees.com.  I have used a lot of their stuff and it always worked and was easy to 
install, but cost more than the raw hardware by a significant amount.  The older TIVO's use Linux and you have to wave a magic wand 
over them to make them work with your drives, but you CAN do it if you want to go to the trouble.  The directions are still probably 
available on the Forum.  I found it easier to use Weakness stuff and just drop it in...

I suspect that you can find answers to all your questions at the TIVO Community Forum, www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/.   (This used 
to be independent of TIVO - I think that it still is.)

The drives you put into your "SA2 Tivo."  Is that the new, High-Def TIVO?  Did you just swap out the drives from the TIVO?

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g.Computer9f" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HDDs


I saw this while looking at hard drives.  I REALLY would like to add drive space to my TIVO2 unit, but whenever I ask TIVO about it, 
its like they only want to sell their own expensive units, saying that you have to buy it from TIVO for it to work.  Obviously that 
isn't true, but I don't know if there is a 'trick' to it or if you have to copy something, or what.

Does anyone know??

From newegg (two reviews) on:  Customer Reviews for Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JBRTL 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 
Hard Drive - Retail
Other Thoughts: I bought this drive specifically to put into my TiVo. Once it was installed, I immediately noticed that it was 
significantly quieter than the 5400 RPM drive that I was using previously.

Pros: I dropped two of these in my SA2 Tivo. hours(basic) 228 hours(Best). runs quiet with no heat issues.

Thanks,   --AnnaSummers

 

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