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Thanks to the Officers Corps!
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Posted by: TimTrace

Greetings:

A great big THANKS to the TiVo Army Officers Corps, for making life easy on us foot soldiers!!

I just closed the entertainment center door on the TiVo Community's latest success story: a HDVR2 with "variable, up to 243 hours" of recording time, using two Maxtor 160GB, 5400RPM, DMA133 drives.

I chose the 160GB drives because I already had one, a freebie that was a customer retention gift from Maxtor over a botched customer service intervention in early 2002. The 2nd drive was a "white box" that cost $215 at Computer Clubhouse .

A quick procedural note: when cabling my 2-drive HDVR2, I found it easiest to move the "A", or master, drive to the 2nd physical location (using a 9th-Tee bracket), and put the "B", or slave, drive in the original location.

I was then able to use a standard 80-conductor HDD cable, turned backwards, to connect the TiVo motherboard (black connector), slave drive (gray connector) and master drive (blue connector). I drilled out the blocked pinhole on the black connector with a Dremel tool.

I was able to fold and twist the cable so that it lay quite neatly inside the TiVo case, minimally blocking airflow.

I wonder how quickly I can fill up my TiVo? Hmmm...I think I'm going to go set the WishList to capture every episode of Home Improvement and The Crocodile Hunter's Croc Files. Given that there's an episode of either show playing at any time of day or night, my reckoning says that it should take about two days. :p

Best regards,

Tim ==