There are two ways that you can do this on the older TIVO units (not the 
Series 3).

First, you can do it yourself.  It uses Linux for the operating system, and 
is somewhat technical.  See

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/

for information on how to do this.  (I would say that it is pretty much 
off-topic for PCBUILD.)

Or, for about twice as much money, you can buy an already-prepared hard 
drive and simply replace the one in your TIVO unit with the purchased one - 
a trivial job for a PCBUILDER. :)  I did this to three of my TIVO's.  I 
bought my stuff from Weaknees, and highly recommend them.

http://www.weaknees.com/

The people at the TIVO community forum have a great deal of info on doing it 
yourself.  I chose to spend the extra money and go with weaknees.  I kept 
the old drives as backups, but you could use them in a computer if you 
wanted to.

HTH

Dean Kukral  (TIVO Lover!)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ann Fennell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:57 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Video on hard drive


While searching for parts for the new PC I'm building (with a little help), 
I noticed that people on newegg were saying that they were buying large hard 
drives to replace the drive in their purchased Tivo units.  Does anyone know 
anything about this?  About how many hours of video could be placed on, say 
a 120GB hard drive, or a 320GB hard drive?  And whether you would have to 
format it or anything or just replace the hardware?

Thanks,
AnnaSummers

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