-) Unless WeekNess has worked out an agreement with DirecTV (which isn't stated anywhere), the opening of the HR20 to install an HR20 (Be it pre-purchase, or via their upgrade program), violates the DirecTV warranty on the box... and violates your lease agreement.
After doing either process, you would only get warranty support from Weekness... any replcements or anything else would be through them, as going through DirecTV you would not get an "upgraded" system, and returning an HR20 without a hard drive......
-) The HR20 supports external hard drives via the eSATA port. Drive(s) (as you can RAID drives to gether to create upwards of 3TB if you wanted), connected via eSATA are seen as a replacement drive, not an addon to the internal.
-) If you are so inclinded to violate your lease (or if you out right purchased the HR20 for $800), upgrading your internal drive is fairly straight forward. As there are no software installations necessary (like the TiVo counterpart), just connect the drive... install it... and put the cover back on. The HR20 does everything else at boot.
As far as I am aware, no one has found a method to copy the contents of an existing drive, to a new larger drive.
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Earl @ Jul 12th 2007 12:01PM
Few things to consider:
-) Unless WeekNess has worked out an agreement with DirecTV (which isn't stated anywhere), the opening of the HR20 to install an HR20 (Be it pre-purchase, or via their upgrade program), violates the DirecTV warranty on the box... and violates your lease agreement.
After doing either process, you would only get warranty support from Weekness... any replcements or anything else would be through them, as going through DirecTV you would not get an "upgraded" system, and returning an HR20 without a hard drive......
-) The HR20 supports external hard drives via the eSATA port. Drive(s) (as you can RAID drives to gether to create upwards of 3TB if you wanted), connected via eSATA are seen as a replacement drive, not an addon to the internal.
-) If you are so inclinded to violate your lease (or if you out right purchased the HR20 for $800), upgrading your internal drive is fairly straight forward. As there are no software installations necessary (like the TiVo counterpart), just connect the drive... install it... and put the cover back on. The HR20 does everything else at boot.
As far as I am aware, no one has found a method to copy the contents of an existing drive, to a new larger drive.
For a lengthy discussion on the Pro's and Con's of the WeaKness offer... see
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=91160&highlight=Weakness