28-May-2005

The first 800gb UK TiVo is here!

That's right! 800gb - 990 hours at basic, 282 hours at best! 

Using 2 x 400gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives we have successfully created what we believe to be the first 800gb UK TiVo! 

It was a tricky process due to the limitations of the MFSTools 2.0 software used to configure the drives, but our experience of creating large upgrades enabled us to do it. The first upgrade was installed in a test TiVo on the 18th May 2005 and was successfully soak-tested for 10 days thereafter before we started offering 800gb upgrades for sale on the 28th. 

Despite the huge capacity, performance proved quite acceptable during the soak-test, even without a cachecard! However, for longer-term use we would definitely recommend the addition of a cachecard with 512mb of RAM, as experience shows that larger TiVos do tend to suffer performance degradation over time as the database gets more cluttered and the Now Playing list extends to hundreds (or in this case, thousands!) of recordings. 

See here for details of our drive upgrade packages.