Upgrade your Roamio with a new drive. No discs needed.
What you need:
T8 Screw driver
T10 Screw Driver
New Hard Drive
What you need:
T8 Screw driver
T10 Screw Driver
New Hard Drive
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=387725can you point me in the right direction?
It has always survived for me with tivoHDs. And now I juust upgraded using WD30EURS for my Roamio plus, and it was painless.having done a bunch of upgrades, i've always liked having the original drive with my cable card pairing stored on my shelf.
does a cable card pairing survive when i upgrade the hdd or will i need to repair it?
It's really just the startup power draw... real world power consumption between 5400rpm and 7200rpm drives is no more than a few watts. Kind of sad, this makes me want to go buy the Roamio Pro for $400 on Amazon right now. I guess I could try and swap out a WD green drive from my home server.7200 RPM is going to definitely draw too much juice, especially for the tiny wall wart my Raomio Basic came with. Nevermind the heat concerns I would have with a 7200 RPM drive. Way, way overkill.
The 5400 RMP WD Red's would be what I would be putting in if I didn't already have an extra 3TB Hitachi that I poached from my NAS. The last couple of times I have ordered Red drives I got them for the same price as other drives. And Red's have one critical feature that will ensure they will be the only drives I ever buy from now on - bearings on both ends of the shaft that the platters spin on. Previously only SAS or Fibre Channel drives had that design feature, SATA drives only had bearings on one end - the end of the shaft with the motor, the other end is just "out there". Hence the huge difference in mean time between failure (MTBF) for SAS/FC drives and SATA drives. For a slight premium, at most, or the same price if you just catch 'em on sale getting any drive other than a red is idiotic IMNSHO at this point....
With the new drive, it's no longer paired. Even though only the premium channels (like HBO) require pairing, it's highly recommended to re-pair it to avoid random issues.just a data point and a question
i just upgraded my plus to a pro. went smooth, simplest tivo upgrade ever
i did guided set up with the stock hdd
I paired the cc & ta with with the stock hdd
tested the tuners
swapped out the drives with a 3tb unit
powered it up & repeated guided set up
i did not have to repair the cc. i'm even getting the switched vid channels
No, pairing did NOT survive the upgrade unless you copied the paired drive to the new drive. That's why HBO "didn't come back".It has always survived for me with tivoHDs. And now I juust upgraded using WD30EURS for my Roamio plus, and it was painless.
Only issue was the HBO channels didn't come back, and I had to go do a little chat session and all is well. Even when I ordered HBO several months ago, the channels never came on until I chatted with someone. They say it's a known issue with the Roamio Plus. They just need you to read them the cablecard id, host id and data id and you'll be synced.
Okay, then maybe I don't know the definition of pairing. All my channels were back, that doesn't qualify? To me, that's a success because like I said, HBO didn't turn on either when I ordered it through the web account. I had to do a little chat. So I figure even if it was a success, expect the HBOs to not show up, and it didn't. I did a chat and got them back. So if I did not have HBO to begin with, then I wouldn't be the wiser whether or not my cable card is paired because all my channels were back.No, pairing did NOT survive the upgrade unless you copied the paired drive to the new drive. That's why HBO "didn't come back".
Once everything is set up and the two TiVos "see" each other and have full access, you should be able to xfer everything directly. It may require multiple connections to the TiVo service and multiple reboots of both TiVos.thank you!
i'm not sure i want to off load & upload
Ahh! Good to know. I came from a TivoHDs. Never had premium channels, so I always thought everything was as it should be.Pairing is an additional authentication step required to receive premium channels like HBO. An activated but not paired CableCARD can receive non-premium channels. For Motorola card, the "Val" flag on the Conditional Access screen is "V" for paired and "?" for non-paired.
Actually, I wouldn't go the go the kmttg xfer-push route anyway. Lose too much of the metadata and they do not group the same.I was hoping to do a "select all' type of transfer... ;>
i would do the pytivo (? going off memory) but i'm overloaded with stuff i need to learn to do on my forum Plus i dont' know if i have enough space on my HDDs 'cuz, yeah, i'm moving out of my 600 hr unit to a 400 hr unit. i may be able to do it easier but i've got to flowchart it before i can say
for cisco cards look at the,Pairing is an additional authentication step required to receive premium channels like HBO. An activated but not paired CableCARD can receive non-premium channels. For Motorola card, the "Val" flag on the Conditional Access screen is "V" for paired and "?" for non-paired.
TiVo Desktop will let you select a bunch of shows at once to copy from TiVo to PC, but you'll have to select them one at a time on the next TiVo to copy them from the PC to it, although as soon as you get the first one started, you can select the next one and it'll "transfer" as soon as the first one finishes, and you can keep selecting them and they'll go into the "list" and get copied in the order in which they were selected.I was hoping to do a "select all' type of transfer... ;>
i would do the pytivo (? going off memory) but i'm overloaded with stuff i need to learn to do on my forum Plus i dont' know if i have enough space on my HDDs 'cuz, yeah, i'm moving out of my 600 hr unit to a 400 hr unit. i may be able to do it easier but i've got to flowchart it before i can say
It is back for all Roamio.the $50 gift card deal seems to be back at bb at least on the plus
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/roamio-...3&skuId=1503982&st=tivo roamio plus&cp=1&lp=1
Crud. Just bought a basic last Wednesday. Got the price match but of course no $50 gift card.It is back for all Roamio.
Best deal, IMO, is PM the basic to Amazon ($149.99), and get $50 gift card on top of that. Kind of like getting it for $99 if you were going to use the $50 anyways.
You might want to go back to BB and see if they will give you the $50 gift card. I bought a Roamio basic last Thursday and I was able to get the gift card today without any issues. The rep just did a full refund of the 1st purchase and then rang up a new ticket with the Amazon price match and included the $50 GC. It took about 5 minutes. I did not have to take the Tivo back, just showed her the receipt and the BB ad.Crud. Just bought a basic last Wednesday. Got the price match but of course no $50 gift card.
Oh well, even if I had known it was coming, exigent circumstances required the purchase when I did it.
This is a huge YMMV thing. The official price match policy, which you can read on thier website, specifically says gift cards aren't given on price matched items.It is back for all Roamio.
Best deal, IMO, is PM the basic to Amazon ($149.99), and get $50 gift card on top of that. Kind of like getting it for $99 if you were going to use the $50 anyways.
That's referring to pricematching gift card offers (e.g. Target offers product X at $Y price with $Z gift card, Best Buy won't give you a gift card with $Z on it).This is a huge YMMV thing. The official price match policy, which you can read on thier website, specifically says gift cards aren't given on price matched items.
Like I said YMMV I was told price matching of items that include gift cards as a promo is against policy.That's referring to pricematching gift card offers (e.g. Target offers product X at $Y price with $Z gift card, Best Buy won't give you a gift card with $Z on it).
If you request a price match on an item that includes a promo gift card you're supposed to be offered the card or the price match, not both.'The Guarantee is limited to one price match per identical item, per guest and does not apply to: Contract mobile phones sold by any online retailer, the online prices of retailers not listed, the online prices of products shipped from or sold by third party vendors (Marketplace vendors) on designated major online retailers websites, post purchase price match requests to competitor's prices, Best Buy for Business™, offers that include financing, gift card offers, bundling of items, free items, pricing errors, mail-in offers, coupon offers, competitors' service prices, items that are advertised as limited-quantity, out of stock, open-box, clearance, refurbished/used items, our and our competitor's Deal of the Day, daily deals, special hour sale event items and credit card offers, BestBuy.com Clearance & More and Marketplace items, and items for sale Thanksgiving Day through 11:59 p.m. on the Monday after Thanksgiving.