Registered: Apr 2002
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Just done upgrade

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.

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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!

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... so that I can update my records? ta!

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.....

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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

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drives were £140 each excluding vat.

Got them from www.dabs.com

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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

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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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