Clone using standalone duplicator?

1. Yes, if the drive contains equal or more sectors than the current drive. Different makes/models can vary in total sectors.
WD Red is the most recommended, does not use as much power, produces less noise/heat. Red Pro line is not recommended, 7200+RPM.

You can go to as much as 8TB, MFSTools 3.x should be used to copy/expand. Be prepared as it can take 1/2 to a whole day's (or more) time to copy.

 

The cable card pairing is not 100% retained.

 

Cloning with a duplicating dock is just fine and no pairing is lost.

The Wd Red drives are recommended as long as they are not the pro series.

 

1) Yes. In reality it should not be an issue since drive size and sector counts have been standardized for about the last 10 years.

2) Yes

3) Yes for Roamios. No for Bolts unless you never boot the clone drive. However pairing may be lost in this case if the clone was attempted to boot in the TiVo before the original drive was put back in.

 

Did you look in System Information and see/tell how many total HD hours? Should be about 450 HD hrs.

 

I want to use one of these cloning docks also. My Roamio OTA has a 1.5TB HDD. I am going to clone to a 3TB HDD. Will the whole 3TB disk be available or is there something else I need to do to make the whole drive usable? I am thinking the cloning dock might make the new HDD only 1.5TB. Thanks for any help.

 

I would recommend to use MFSTools to copy and expand the drive at the same time.

However, if you clone the drive to the 3TB, you will only be using the same 1.5 TB of space you currently are using. You can expand it with MFSTools and ancillary programs that are on the ISO. But you may limit future expansion.

 

Thank you! But maybe I'm dense. But what do you mean by "But you may limit future expansion"?

 

You can add 3 pairs of partitions to the internal drive of a Roamio or Bolt. Each pair can add 2TB of data. In this case you are adding 1.5 TB using up one of the pairs you can add.

 

Ok thank you. How about if I clone and expand to a 4TB HDD instead? I wouldn't be adding or cloning again after that. Would I be ok doing that?

 

That would be my recommendation if you use MFSTools to copy your original drive to the 4TB

 

Thank you very much. A few years ago when I bought my Roamio OTA I upgraded the HDD to the current 1.5TB drive. I used KMTTG then. I tried to use it this time as well as PyTivo but when copying my shows to my PC I get error messages on almost all of them. So I am going to try this cloning route this time. Thanks again for the help.

 

Based on this thread used this duplicator to make a copy of my hard drive that was failing. Put it in the Tivo and started right up, no pairing problems at all. Just put the two drives in this thing and push the button. To increase drive size steps are:

1. Put the current hard drive and the new hard drive in the disk duplicator
2. Download jmfs-rev104.iso then use rufus-3.8.exe to put the iso on a usb
3. Put the USB in very old, HP laptop
4. Press F10 when booting old laptop and change boot options
5. Tell to boot from "legacy" usb with security off
6. connect new hard drive to old hp
7. select expand and run
8. select supersize and then press enter to run

WAVLINK USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual-Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone Duplicator and Auto Sleep Function [10TB X2 ]-Black