Series 1 HD Upgrade - How big is too big??

[SDMatt]

Hi All,

I've got a series 1 box that I'm replacing the [almost] 10 year old drives on.

Aside from the TIVO cache/network card I installed, the box is stock with the two 30GB drives that it came with.

I've read horror stories of folks that have expanded their S1 boxes and have problems with really bad slow downs.

This leads into my question. Given the fact that I have a working cache card, can I upgrade my S1 TIVO with two 120GB drives without regretting it?

I also have a related question - are S1 boxes still limited to using the first 120GBs of the drive, or is there a hack to fix this limit?

Thanks!!

[ggieseke]

It should be fine. I have dual 120s in one SVR-2000 and dual 160s (using 137 ea) in the other. Even without a cachecard the performance is just fine.

The 137GB limit per device still applies to the factory OS, but the LBA48 patch removes that limitation. See the sticky at the top of this forum.