engadget.com — An intrepid modder named lightrunner with a long and housebound winter in his sights has posted his experience of expanding the capacity of his Series3 TiVo from the standard 250GB to a whole terabyte, whick takes the S3's total recording capacity up to a possible 131 hours of HD recording, or a whopping 1244 hours -- 52 days!
Oct 17, 2006 View in Crawl 4
streakOct 17, 2006
From the article: "we've still got to wonder where the guy is going to find the time to watch a working week of high definition TV re-runs."That's just 3 days of HD, after skipping the commercials. Then divide it among 4 family members, and it's less than one day per person. Very reasonable, I'd say.
sbovisjb1Oct 17, 2006
@streak, you better believe it :)
netmindstormOct 18, 2006
Granted cost is a factor, but with the raid 5 storage he has a terabyte of storage that is more fault tolerant than with a single hard drive. Of course you do have a very valid point in that you could have two S3 record the same shows in order to have some sort of fault tolerance and at a lower price point. Still if you have the $$$, I'm sure it was a fun experiment. BTW that enclosure is around $1400 US w/o the hard drives and it actually cost him more than that--he had to allow his wife to get a new pair of shoes IIRC.
netmindstormOct 18, 2006
For OTA and analog cable signals you have a point, but Myth TV does not support cable card so Myth TV can't do encrypted digital cable (unless you have some HDCP "stripper" device).
atbnetOct 18, 2006
You must not use a DVR. If you unplug them it does take about a minute for it to boot back up. It is basically a PC just in a nice little box with DVR software.
zorlokOct 18, 2006
Jobs says "boom" not "bam"
t3rryOct 18, 2006
I'd rather sd content that i can use how i please rather than hd content that can only be played on that one box
djmajickmanOct 18, 2006
Yeah this is a guy that had money as no object. (5) 500GB SATA drives $855 (1) Sans Digital MR5CT1 $1,449. Tivo Series 3 with transferred lifetime subscription $999. Total cost of project more money then I'm willing to spend :P