R10 - Use One Drive Or Two?

[Rhughes]

I have a new R10 with its 80GB standard drive. When the warranty is up I want to either add a 200GB drive as secondary, or replace the 80GB with the 200GB for a single drive unit. In the past I have done fine with a 160GB which gave me about 128 hours of programming. So I really don't need the two drives for space. Is there any downside to using two drives in an R10 instead of one? In my situation would I just be better off staying with one drive? Should produce less heat if nothing else.

[litzdog911]

I personally prefer just using one bigger hard drive rather than two drives, simply because two drive Tivos are twice as likely to have hard drive problems. And it's tougher to troubleshoot which drive is bad in a two drive Tivo.

[Dkerr24]

2 drives cons:

1) Double the chance of failure. If even one drive fails, the other drive won't work until reimaged.
2) Double the noise.
3) More heat inside the case.
4) Double the power draw on a power supply only spec'd for one drive.

Why risk it?

[Rhughes]

2 drives cons:

1) Double the chance of failure. If even one drive fails, the other drive won't work until reimaged.
2) Double the noise.
3) More heat inside the case.
4) Double the power draw on a power supply only spec'd for one drive.

Why risk it?That's kind of how I look at it too. I don't have a current use for the existing drive (new computer uses SATA) but I can always put it on a shelf as removed to replace the big drive if it fails someday.