http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/ Engadget HD Comments for How to upgrade your TiVo HD with WinMFS http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/]]>Apr 17th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/Apr 17th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/Apr 17th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/Apr 17th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/If you upgrade the internal drive with a new one in the 750/500 GB range I would suggest that if you want an external HD also attached you buy a new one. This way you can keep the "old" 160GB HD as a back up. ie.e new 750 HD internal drive suddemnly dies after 2 years usage. Bingo yo can put back in the old 160 or use that to make up a new internal drive.

Sorta surprised that this how to doesn't go for this option????

My only issue with the TIVO HD is the expense of it all.

Basic TIVO HD $300.00
Lifetime subscription $399.00
750GB internal drive $175.00

Total cost $874.00.

I know it gives great performance but isn't there supposed to be a new model on the horizon within 6 months with 2 way CableCard technology built in? Versus the "dongle" or "resolver" promised for the HDTIVO.]]>Apr 17th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/Apr 17th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/
I had no idea there were actual differences in drives for applications like this until recently. (tivo community forums explains this better than I can.)
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Now while you can't use the external sata port after this upgrade - because you can't upgrade/expand an already expanded Tivo drive; you could get a bit clever and connect 3 hard drives up to your PC. The windows drive, the factory Tivo HD drive, then your Two new hard drives. Do the WinMFS tools telling the software that you have an 'A' and a 'B' drive. Then, when you are all done and the Tivo HD box is back together, when you boot it up - first connect the 'B' drive via the external eSata port - and now you have a ginormous Tivo.

And, yes there are AV types of hard drives verses regular data drives; but the data drives will still work just fine. I've done many upgrades on tivos over the years... and they just work. Keeping the factory drive does make it very simple to "do
it all over again" if a drive ever dies... This is SO EASY TO DO!
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Now while you can't use the external sata port after this upgrade - because you can't upgrade/expand an already expanded Tivo drive; you could get a bit clever and connect 3 hard drives up to your PC. The windows drive, the factory Tivo HD drive, then your Two new hard drives. Do the WinMFS tools telling the software that you have an 'A' and a 'B' drive. Then, when you are all done and the Tivo HD box is back together, when you boot it up - first connect the 'B' drive via the external eSata port - and now you have a ginormous Tivo.

And, yes there are AV types of hard drives verses regular data drives; but the data drives will still work just fine. I've done many upgrades on tivos over the years... and they just work. Keeping the factory drive does make it very simple to "do
it all over again" if a drive ever dies... This is SO EASY TO DO!
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I Always buy enterprise drives, as they have MUCH better MTBF and are optimized for constant use.]]>Apr 19th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/04/17/how-to-upgrade-your-tivo-hd-with-winmfs/
It might also be important to note that WinMFS also has a "supersize" option that you can run after the backup/restore process. Supersize frees up even more space on your new drive. With my 1TB drive, I had 131 HD hours after the restore and 144 HD hours after the supersize.

I couldn't be happier and the whole process was under an hour.
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