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Upgrade DirecTIVO DSR7000
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Posted by: Ichee Marone

Have read Hinsdale's How To Guide, and planning on a "simple" upgrade of A drive to WD 120GB drive. Longer-term may add another 120GB as a "B" drive. Does anyone has any gotchas? Thx

Posted by: GREEK

dont use 2 drives in a tivo, its nothing but problems. THey will get sloooow, and when the drives go, you'll have a bitch of a time divorcing and playing with them. Not to mention the 50 bucks for a braket to use 2 drives, you can get a new tivo for 93, and the supply usually dies young in dual drive units. If you do, make sure you get 2 different make drives, so the start up is staggered slightly. ALways save the stock drive for a backup, never use it with another drive, thats just dumb. Use a single large drive, do the LBA48 hack if 100+ hours is not enough. I just have 2 units in every room, one with suggestions off to keep it fast, and one with them on to wait forever for the screens, but records suggestions................

Posted by: rickaren

Happy with my professionally up-graded TWO Drive unit. Did have a failure and unit was replaced free of charge by WeaKness. I don't think it was due to hard drive failure, however. I did get it up to 127 hours as a test one time and yes 243 hours is an over-kill. It's still nice not to have to delete ANYTHING due to lack of storage!

Posted by: Ichee Marone

is the LBA48 hack part of Hinsdale upgrade which uses Tiger 2.0?

Posted by: GREEK

no its not. theres a thread up top on how to do it, but its different on a ser2 machine. I doubt your gonna need more than 125 hrs. a 160 will give you that, and you can get one less than 100 after rebates. Most dont use the extra space, I would hack the unit and pull the video off if your gonna save it long term, or save to DVD or VHS, not the unit. They get SLOOOOOW with 2 drives, and the more in your now playing list, the slower. Also suggestions slows down alot, turn off if you dont really use it...........

Posted by: Ichee Marone

I *think* I'm reading correctly, that the LBA48 hack wouldn't be applicable to a singe 120GB A: drive (no B: drive)

Posted by: tivoupgrade

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Originally posted by Ichee Marone
I *think* I'm reading correctly, that the LBA48 hack wouldn't be applicable to a singe 120GB A: drive (no B: drive)

There is no LBA48 hack (that I know of) for Series2 units such as the DSR7000; so its a moot point. In any case, a 120GB drive requires no such special treatment - 137GB per drive is the limitation.

As for using two drives - there is no reason you can't/shouldn't use two drives. Yes, some functions will slow down in the menus - your playback/recording performance will not be affected. Use good, quality drives, and you'll have no problems; we have plenty of cutsomers with dual-drive configs and no complaints.

Also, a bracket is < $15; check out 9thTee, they sell a bracket which is inexpensive, easy to install and does not disrupt the airflow for which your unit was designed to handle.

Posted by: Ichee Marone

Am I finished???
Last night I completed Hinsdale Step 9 and thought I was done (replacing factory A: drive with 120GB replacement). System Information still reads "35hours" for recording capacity. Do I have to perform:
mfsadd -x /dev/hdc to get ful 120GB to show up?

Posted by: Ichee Marone

So, *yes* I had to issue the mfsadd -x /dev/hdc command and now everything is hunky dory.

I want to thank Tiger, Hinsdale, tivoupgrade, and ptvupgrade...and all the very good and knowledgeable folks who help me in the forum.

Posted by: TivoDoctor

I upgraded a HDVR2 with a Weaknees bracket and fan and I am quite happy. It has a Maxtor 120 GB and a Maxtor 160 GB drive in it. It does take a little extra time to get into Now Playing, but any other delays are not perceptible. It has been running about 4 months without any problems yet. I like keeping movies on it from HBO, Cinemax, etc. so I can watch them later. It's like having a large DVD collection on the Tivo. Just my opinion.

TivoDoctor

Posted by: Willie1961

Thanks for all the help and good information.

I have 2 DirecTivo's scheduled for install on 2-18-2004.

I ordered a 160gb Samsung drive from Newegg.com for 103.00 (free shipping). If that goes hitch free, I will prolly order another for the 2nd Tivo.

Willie