When I purchased, the external drive wasn't yet supported, no details on when or how were released. Ahh well, doesn't matter that much anyway, does anyone really NEED a 400 hour unit ? I can always add the external drive now, and be up to 1000 hours total (at basic).
Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "MegaZone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Freezing Tivo fixed > Once upon a time Glen Farney shaped the electrons to say... >> So why did I have to buy a TiVo HD with an upgraded drive, I saw no >> options >> for adding a drive to that unit. Not that I'm not happy with a single >> drive. > > You didn't. > > The TiVo HD has the external eSATA port, of course, for a second > drive. No one is selling brackets to internally mount a second drive > in the TiVo HD, but the space is in there if someone wanted to make > their own bracket. There are even mounting points for it, I found > them when I did my review. > > But the prefered way to expand TiVos now is to replace the A drive and > not to add a B drive, at least for capacities up to 1TB. It is much > easier to just swap out the drive than to mess with marrying drives, > mounting two drives, etc. > > The exception being the external eSATA drive for the S3 & TiVo HD of > course, that's just plug-and-play with no real work needed. But if > you have expanded the internal drive, the A drive, you lose the > ability to add an eSATA B drive without manually reimaging both and > marrying them. > > -MZ > -- > megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, > me. > http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail > Eris > "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" > 508-852-2171 > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
