Tivo Upgrade
Last weekend I decided to upgrade our Tivo. We bought the basic 40hour model last winter and have been more and more getting really close to running out of space. Fry’s had 200GB Western Digital hard drives on sale for only $55 without any rebate hassles.
I followed the instructions from http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/ and swapped the original 40GB HDD for the 200GB in about 30 minutes. This includes copying over the data from the original drive to the new one.
I plugged it back into the TV and powered it on. I looked in the system info menu and we now have a 220 hour Tivo. The little guy has been recording its head off. No more running out of stuff to watch. I’ve got 10 CSI episodes ready to watch at all times. The kid has a good selection of educational programs and cartoons in Tivo’s KidsZone. We wonder why we waited this long to do the upgrade.