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Technology Stocks : Tivo (TIVO) Interactive TV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1777)	2/13/2006 12:56:48 PM
From: LarsA	Respond to of 2093

Tim, I have a couple of ReplayTVs - and they, as Tivo, have hard disk issues. Some believe the hard disks are running too hot -hotter than in a PC. And they sure are working hard 24/7! You will find many fora on the net to help you with this. Search on disk failure Tivo. I wanted to replace my original small disk (40 G?)with one or two large ones anyway, to get 240 G for capacity reasons, and have no problems now. I also installed a fan. Lars

To: TimF who wrote (1777)	2/14/2006 8:41:14 AM
From: Gamma Positive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2093

Ditto. But they run hotter because they write (and read) data 24x7. Directivo's write (and read) about 1GB of data EVERY hour. Some of the standalone Tivo's can do more than this depending on the recording quality. Also, I try set mine on "Standby" when I'm not watching it. This prevents it from disk "reading". If you replace the drive yourself, always buy the best quality you can with the biggest cache as possible. And I believe all Tivo's have fans in them, and because of this, you should open and vacumn (very carefully) your Tivo at least once a year.