Western Digital WD7500AAKS ?

[Raoul99]

I just bought a new TivoHD, and would like to upgrade the hard drive.

Do any of you have the Western Digital WD7500AAKS ?
How has it been for reliability? Is it fairly quiet?

Thanks,

Rick

[stevieboy]

Rick

I just updated my TiVoHD yesterday with that drive using WINmfs. I did use the Hitachi Feature Tool to change the acoustic management settings to 128. Drive seems very quite and everything went smooth as silk. Time will tell about reliability but over the years i've had a lot of luck with WD drives.

Steve

[Jon65]

Rick

I just updated my TiVoHD yesterday with that drive using WINmfs. I did use the Hitachi Feature Tool to change the acoustic management settings to 128. Drive seems very quite and everything went smooth as silk. Time will tell about reliability but over the years i've had a lot of luck with WD drives.

Steve

I did exactly the same thing, same drive, but used linux hdparm settings to change the acoustic management. Zero problems so far after 6 weeks.

Jon

[Raoul99]

Thanks for the response guys. This drive looks like a pretty good deal to me.

Any others have any experience with this?

Rick

[HDTiVo]

Rick

I just updated my TiVoHD yesterday with that drive using WINmfs. I did use the Hitachi Feature Tool to change the acoustic management settings to 128. Drive seems very quite and everything went smooth as silk. Time will tell about reliability but over the years i've had a lot of luck with WD drives.

Steve
I am happy you started this thread. There is a $179.99 special at Fry's right now.

However, I have had bad experience with WD desktop drives over the years. This one has a 3yr warranty though. However it is not one of the AV series TiVo uses in the TiVo HD.

So what do I do? Worst concern to me would be hard drive failure on a TiVo - losing recordings and taking this "mission critical" device down.

[raiden256]

Rick

I just updated my TiVoHD yesterday with that drive using WINmfs. I did use the Hitachi Feature Tool to change the acoustic management settings to 128. Drive seems very quite and everything went smooth as silk. Time will tell about reliability but over the years i've had a lot of luck with WD drives.

Steve


Me too. This was my exact experience!

[wizzy]

I've had this drive in my TivoHD for about 2 months, with no issues. I changed the drive acoustics, and have had no complaints. Can't remember which software it was specifically, but it was on the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) .

[csiddens]

Just did this same upgrade myself, using the Fry's bare drive on sale at $179.99. The first drive I bought failed the WD full check, so I returned it and picked up another.
Everything seems to be running smoothly; I do hear some seek noise when I listen really carefully. However, I used a USB-SATA cable, and couldn't get the Hitachi feature tool to recognize the drive, so it's at the stock value. I'm assuming the tool doesn't recognize USB, but if there's a way to get the tool to recognize it without an internal SATA port, I'd love to know how.