[Cialug] OT: Tivo

[Claus]

On 6/26/2007 10:37 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> Ah, right you are. I can't just drop the drives in a new unit and 
> recover my recordings.  I talked to a guy at weaknees and he is 90% sure 
> it's hard drive failure anyway.  One way to find out quickly is to 
> simply put another drive with a newly formated OS6.2 and see if it 
> boots.  I guess the first thing todo is verify one of the drives died 
> and if so I'll be in the market for a big IDE drive.
> 
> --Tony

I upgraded my TiVo to a Seagate DB35 drive.  I choose that drive since 
they weren't any more expensive than regular desktop Seagate drives and 
I had to buy one anyway.  These drives are designed with DVR in mind and 
I hoped that they will keep the system quieter.  So far no complains 
about reliability nor noise.  The only problem is that TiVo records to 
many shows now and I don't have enough time to watch them. :)

Right now I'm on a Seagate trip since I had WD and IBM drives fail on me 
but no Seagate drive for many years.  My opinion might change tomorrow, 
who knows how lucky I'll stay.

   Claus