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Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff @ Sep 15th 2006 11:56AM
"I definitely want 750 gigs of space, so the question for me is if it's worth an extra $200 bucks for someone else to image the drive and figure out a solution to the proprietary drive connector"
If the Series 3 is anything like the Series 2, then no, it's not worth it.
Imaging the drive is a trivial process if you're at all tech savvy. It takes about 10 minutes and just involves running a Linux boot CD on your PC with your old TiVo drive and your new drive connected to it. I wouldn't say it's something my grandma could do, but for anyone with any knowledge of computers at all, it's nothing. If you can connect a hard drive to your PC, then you can do it.
I don't know if the Series 3 really has a "proprietary" drive connector inside or not. The Series 2 just had a regular old IDE connector. If the Series 3 has a vanilla SATA connector, then you're good to go once you've imaged. Otherwise, it still doesn't seem worth it to pay $200 for a proprietary connector. Just get the connector from somewhere. It can't be more than $20 worth of electronics.
People were selling these "upgrade kits" for Series 2 machines also, for inflated prices. I just went out and bought a big hard drive and downloaded MFSTools. It was easy.