Solid State HDD

Know that the software portion of the Bolt is stored in Flash memory - which of course is plenty fast. The recordings are on the spinning disks. You may see some overall responsiveness increases nevertheless. I can't speak from personal experience. Since I want more HDD space, I'll stick with lower cost HDDs

 

Can you? Don’t see why not.

Performance improvement? Not at all. Besidea, what about the Bolt feels slow? The slowest thing I see is when the tuners change frequency, and there’s no SSD in the world that’s going to speed that up.

Putting an SSD in the Bolt is a colossal waste of money. Akin to putting a turbine engine on a golf cart.

 

It should work from a technical standpoint, but is a bad idea from a design standpoint, as SSDs have limited write cycles (especially the consumer TLC ones) and TiVo writes 24/7. If you get enterprise SLC SSDs, that would be ok, but those are really prohibitively expensive for virtually zero gain.

 

Haha! No, there’s nothing slow about the Bolt at all. It’s a speed demon compared to my Roamio Pro, which was no slouch itself.

I mean, I click on Netflix and it’s up in a second. Very impressive.

I’d stick with standard spinning rust. Putting an SSD in would just be a waste of dollars. Go get yourself one of the HDD’s recommended here and live happy.

Or, get the 6 tuned Bolt+ and you won’t have to do squat. You’ll also have 2 extra tuners to boot - with the money you save vs the SSD, go get some tivo mini’s for your other TVs!


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For DVR functions they are comparable. For apps, Bolt is noticeably faster.

The white bolts are all the same. The Bolt+ I don't know for sure, but it is probably the same processor or newer revision of same processor, so differences (if any) would probably be minor. Memory is likely the same also.

I don't want to say for sure the components are the same because I haven't done a component list, but if there are differences they are not night and day differences because people have both Bolt and Bolt+ in the same household and are not saying, wow, the Bolt+ is so much faster.