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
If you want to get really funky throw the orignal drive back in there and see if it'll still boot. Or if it has to go through the whole process again. Could end up wasting a lot of time, so try at your own risk.
Im pretty positive a 3TB will work fine however I don't have one to try out. 4TB I would only be worried due to weakness reporting a 'bug'. 300 HD hours is plenty for my 2 roamio's each though
I wanted to have one in my bedroom and one in my brother's bedroom. We both record allot so each having 4 tuners and 2 TB of space will meet both our needs.
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.
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.
I can boot with partition magic and check out the stock hard drive. Give me a few minute to drag the PC up here and set it up. I will take a photo to show whatever is there (if anything).
MBT (Mother Board Temp) is listed right above Remote Address:
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