If the unit has lifetime service it's worth fixin, that's for sure. I have the Tivo HD, love it, dual tuners and more space (I upgraded the drive from 160g to 320g). It's a serious step up from the Sony S1 box I was using.
Hard drives are cheap these days, you can get a 160g drive for about a hundred bucks or less, though you should get the one set up for tivo type units (lower rpms, and that know not to spend 15 seconds trying to get one bad bit). Glen ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:49:30 AM Subject: [TiVo Central] Hard drive failure Hi everyone, Over the weekend my secondary Series 2.5 hard drive failed. This box must be 3.5 years old or so. I am now faced with what to do. I could buy Instantcake for a 80 Gig hard drive that I am not using, about $20. Buy a new hard drive with the OS installed for around $120. Or maybe it's time to get a new Tivo considering I have a new HD 40" Sony TV. I am a little strapped for cash since the holiday season but not sure that the old Tivo is worth investing anymore in. After all I only paid $99 for initially. I am too cheap to pay for HD content from Comcast at this time but that may change. Anyway, I throw this out for suggestions. Right now I have way more problems than I have solutions for. Thanks in advance, Chris ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
