Just a heads up, make sure the drive you're going to use is made specifically for AV. A lot of people were wondering why Tivo just didn't offer an empty drive enclosure of their approved external expansion, and it was because a lot of drive are not designed to be turned on and constantly used 24/7 and will prematurely die because of it. The drive in the official Tivo expansion is an AV drive which is designed to last longer.
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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Pip @ Apr 17th 2008 2:13PM
Just a heads up, make sure the drive you're going to use is made specifically for AV. A lot of people were wondering why Tivo just didn't offer an empty drive enclosure of their approved external expansion, and it was because a lot of drive are not designed to be turned on and constantly used 24/7 and will prematurely die because of it. The drive in the official Tivo expansion is an AV drive which is designed to last longer.
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.)