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Posted by: GadgetGav

Just got the Maxtor 120Gb drive this morning ($217 puls shipping). I've got the hinsdale how to and the CD with all the stuff on it... I think I'm all set.
Here goes - unless someone knows something else I need before I start...

I'll let you know how it goes...

Posted by: kroddy

If it's non DirectTV TiVO you'll need a mounting bracket - if it's a Hughes you'll need a Y cable for the drive power and a two-drive IDE cable

Posted by: GadgetGav

:mad: grrrr
I knew there'd be something. I was going to order the 9th tee bracket, but a friend at work who just upgraded his said there was a mounting space in there... of course his was a Dtivo Sony and mine's a SA Sony....
Oh well, I'll put it in there carefully for now and order the bracket.

Posted by: Sparky

quote:
Originally posted by GadgetGav
Just got the Maxtor 120Gb drive this morning ($217 puls shipping). I've got the hinsdale how to and the CD with all the stuff on it... I think I'm all set.
Here goes - unless someone knows something else I need before I start...

I'll let you know how it goes...

I would be interested in how things go, I am waiting for my drive to show up. I will keep checking back.... :cool:

Posted by: GadgetGav

:( It's not just the bracket...
I've got a 3yr old Sony Vaio PC and to make it as small as it is, they left out the secondary slave connector and associated power connector.
I'll take the Tivo disk to work tomorrow and use a full size PC there. My current computer is a G4 Cube, so there's no help there either :rolleyes:

I'll let you know in 24 hrs....

Posted by: GadgetGav

Well that seems relatively painless... of course I'm at work now so I didn't bring the whole Tivo in - just the drive.
The backup when OK after I had qunlock'd the disk. I blessed the 120Gb drive and it reported a size of 114.something which seems right to me.
All I need now is to get home and rebuild the Tivo and look forward to hours of my stuff to watch over Christmas :D

[edit] As a sidenote, the drive had 'Sony' stamped on the casing a couple of times and '2.5.1' stamped on it too... Is this normal..? From what I'd read here I thought SA units shipped as 2.0 and then upgraded during set up. It looks like this one was 2.5.1 from the factory.

Posted by: GadgetGav

:D :) :D :) :cool:
Success....!
Original Quantum drive + 120Gb Maxtor = 177 hours and 11 minutes at basic quality and nearly 49 hours at best :cool:
Everything went very smoothly - I'll just have to open it up again to put the bracket in when it arrives.

Posted by: Sparky

quote:
Originally posted by GadgetGav
:D :) :D :) :cool:
Success....!
Original Quantum drive + 120Gb Maxtor = 177 hours and 11 minutes at basic quality and nearly 49 hours at best :cool:
Everything went very smoothly - I'll just have to open it up again to put the bracket in when it arrives.

Great!! 177 hours total so 177 - 35 = 142, so the new drive adds 142 hours at basic quality. I think I can get by with that. Now all I need is the drive, with the holiday if I am lucky later next week. I can hardly wait. :-|

Posted by: GadgetGav

And the temp only went up to 31C in a closed media closet too, so there seems to be no problem there. Can't say anything about the noise - as I said it's in a closed closet, but I put the 80Gb Maxtor in my Cube and it's still as good as silent. The 120Gb didn't seem to be making any noise when I had both Tivo drives out in a PC during the upgrade and I haven't run any acoustic management software on them.