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Just done upgrade
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Posted by: jkeble

Have only had my Tivo for a week. Started and finished upgrading it this evening.

I now have 293 hours capacity.

What a great piece of equipment Tivo is.

Now I just have to find the time to watch all the stuff it will be able to record.

Out of interest are the mounting brackets to hold the hard drives internally available in the UK.

Jason.

Posted by: mrtickle

Hmm, 293 hours - what disc capacity is that - 2 x 120GB? Is this on 2.5.5 btw?

Out of interest please could you post your exact hh:mm times for all four quality settings (available from the "set default quality" screen) so that I can update my records? :) ta!

Posted by: cwaring

quote:
Originally posted by mrtickle
... so that I can update my records? :) ta!

Just out of interest, can you post these here, MrT?

Posted by: jkeble

Okay here are the stats.

Unit is a Thompson Scenium

Had a single drive in it a 40GB Quantam Fireball.

I have replaced it with two Maxtor 120GB D540X 4G 5400rpm Ultra 133 drives. Maxtor model number 4G120J6.

Tivo software version is 2.5.5-01-1-023

Recording capacity is stated as

84 hrs o mins Best Quality
293 hrs 39 mins basic quality

Posted by: jkeble

oops missed out the other categories, here they are

best 84 hours 0 mins
high 136 hours 30 mins
medium 180 hours 59 mins
basic 293 hours 39 mins

Posted by: cwaring

quote:
Originally posted by jkeble
best 84 hours 0 mins
high 136 hours 30 mins
medium 180 hours 59 mins
basic 293 hours 39 mins

Well. That would do me. I need around 132 hours to store all six series of Stargate:SG1 and as I usually use 'medium' quality, that would give me 48 hours for general recording :)

Posted by: mrtickle

Brill cheers.

cwaring - certainly - I have a spreadsheet which I used to help me decide what size to go for. I'll tidy it up and post it here soon :)

Posted by: mrtickle

BTW I've lost the original 1.5.2 values for High, Medium and Basic with the original 40GB drive - has anyone still got these? TIA

Edit: Ah, good. I realised that the values were on a screenshot in the manual all along (doh!) before anyone managed to point it out :)

Posted by: SDV

quote:
Okay here are the stats.

Unit is a Thompson Scenium

Had a single drive in it a 40GB Quantam Fireball.

I have replaced it with two Maxtor 120GB D540X 4G 5400rpm Ultra 133 drives. Maxtor model number 4G120J6.

Tivo software version is 2.5.5-01-1-023

Recording capacity is stated as

84 hrs o mins Best Quality
293 hrs 39 mins basic quality.

SNAP :)

Mine spends its entire day recording anything of possible interest (85 passes and counting) at high or best quality, with favourites like stargate being set to "Save till I delete". It has 155 progs recorded atm and still has space. I don't watch it all, just browse through and cherry pick whatever I fancy watching - live TV? whats that? :)

I thought Pacelink were going to sell HDD brackets etc. But I don't see any sign of this on their website yet.....

Posted by: Nishikigoi

quote:
Originally posted by jkeble
Okay here are the stats.

Unit is a Thompson Scenium

Had a single drive in it a 40GB Quantam Fireball.

I have replaced it with two Maxtor 120GB D540X 4G 5400rpm Ultra 133 drives. Maxtor model number 4G120J6.

Tivo software version is 2.5.5-01-1-023

Recording capacity is stated as

84 hrs o mins Best Quality
293 hrs 39 mins basic quality

How much were the drives?

Posted by: jkeble

drives were Ł140 each excluding vat.

Got them from www.dabs.com

Posted by: mrtickle

quote:
Originally posted by mrtickle
Brill cheers.

cwaring - certainly - I have a spreadsheet which I used to help me decide what size to go for. I'll tidy it up and post it here soon :)

Here we are:
expansion graphs

enjoy

Posted by: Tony Hoyle

An extra stat: I have 120GB + 30GB (new drive + the original drive A). I get 50:42 at best quality and 176:46 at basic quality.

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