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Hard Drive Upgrade Info

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#1 ·
Upgrade your Roamio with a new drive. No discs needed.

What you need:
T8 Screw driver
T10 Screw Driver
New Hard Drive

 
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#427 ·
Did you get the same model as before, and did it have a Seagate in it as well?
I did get the same entry level Roamio as before, however I havent opened the case yet to change the hard drive. Im going through the setup with the stock drive then upgrading because people had some concerns if it would work this way so I'm being the Guinea pig :D
 
#437 ·
Process complete:



I tried to look for internal temperature but its not in the system info, I scrolled all the way to bottom and nothing.

Anyways this shows you can upgrade after setting it up (you do have to setup everything again from scratch after replacing the hard drive).
 
#446 ·
In case there aren't any data points for the Plus model yet -
I purchased a Plus earlier this evening, removed the 1 TB drive and replaced it with a spare 2 TB EZRX WD Green I had. The drive had an NTFS partition with no data on it beforehand. It took about 4 minutes to go from first boot to the beginning of Guided Setup. I've gone through a series of downloads, updates, and reboots since then. The info screen on my Roamio Plus shows roughly the same recording capacity as a Premiere with a 2 TB drive. I did not boot the stock drive before attempting the build from blank replacement.
 
#448 ·
A PC won't see anything. You'd have to get DVRBARS and use it to make a compressed full backup, then send it over to the author.
:confused: What the heck do you think DVRBars runs on, a toaster?

I for one would love for him to boot up some flavor of a linux utility disk and get a partition map if there is one. If there isn't one, it isn't likely that there is any point to running DVRBars.

With a reported capacity of 316 hours, it seems at least that they have finally reduced the amount of space allocated for TiVos use to a reasonable amount, thus making "supersize" unnecessary.
 
#451 ·
I tried to look for internal temperature but its not in the system info, I scrolled all the way to bottom and nothing.

Anyways this shows you can upgrade after setting it up (you do have to setup everything again from scratch after replacing the hard drive).
Thats really strange. I cant remember if they all had it, but the most recent ones I remember. Wonder why they took it off? :confused:
Temp is listed in System Information as MBT: 45

MBT (Mother Board Temp) is listed right above Remote Address:
 
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