samedi 18 juin 2016

Compatible hard drive list for Bolt...

Hello everyone. I just bought a 500 GB Tivo Bolt 3 days ago with the idea of upgrading the hard drive to something bigger. I read in a post somewhere on this site I believe that mentioned the Seagate STDR2000100 external USB drive (which is 2 TB) being compatible. So I went out and bought it, opened up the USB3 case and extracted the drive in it. When I tried to replace the factory drive in my TIvo Bolt with it I ended up getting the blinking 4 lights! I reformatted it on my Linux box several different ways, tried several times with the same result - 4 blinking lights!

So I ended up pulling the 3.5" 3 GB Western Digital (Green) drive that I had in my Tivo Roamio (the Roamio died 4 days ago because of a lighting strike - that is why I bought the Bolt in the first place). I ran a SATA cable external from the Bolt to this drive and used an external power supply to this drive and it works. This drive is about 2 years old now and I want to buy a new drive but have no direction at this point on what to get.

I have looked in these forums and have done numerous internet searches and cannot find a guaranteed model that is a ~2-3 GB in size that works for 100% sure. It seems like the latest firmware update that exists on my machine and everyone else's broke hard drive upgrades. Please correct me if I am wrong. I am OK in using an external 3.5" drive with a separate power supply if needed. I just want verification on what drive works.

Besides the Toshiba 3.0TB MQ03ABB300 drive (BTW - is this Toshiba drive still a blessed solution after the latest firmware version that is out there? The video I saw on Youtube is from 2015) are there any other tested hard drive replacements that will work?

I am open to any suggestions. If there are proven hard drive replacement solutions that work 100% maybe we should start a thread that lists them.

Thanks for your time. This is my fist post so please go easy on me :)

Thanks much.

Tom


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