Hello, my wife is really leaning on me to upgrade our roamio. In System informaton, it says it has a capacity of 75 HD hours, or something like 506 SD hours if I remember correctly. Can anybody tell me what this translates to in GB terms?
She also wants me to preserve her shows, and I see that MFS tools 3.2 will do that. If I read that thread correctly, the procedures get trickier when the hard drive is really big, but for smaller ones, it's a simple copy command. I think for 3TB, it's that simple command. What about 4TB? are the instructions the same for that as for 3TB? (I assume that for, say, 6TB, the procedure gets more complicated.)
If the procedure is simple for 4TB, and if that is a substantial increase beyond 75 HD hours, I'm leaning on buying a 4TB drive. Assuming so, are there recommendations on what brand I should be getting? I'm not sure how standardized the physical dimensions of HDs are, so I want to make sure I get the right kind that will fit in the Roamio. Or things like power consumption, etc... what all should be I looking out for when choosing a hard drive?
BTW, I think I read that it's possible to put two drives in there, but from photos I've seen it looks to me like there's not enough physical space for that. (Not to mention heat build up problems, and power demands on the power supply). Can that really be done? I'd prefer to stick with one drive, but my wife did ask me if I install a 4 TB drive, and if down the road it gets filled up, is it possible to put a second 4 TB drive in there (for a total of 8 TB)? I'm curious what the answer to that is, but I hope she never asks me to beef it up beyond 4 TB.
She also wants me to preserve her shows, and I see that MFS tools 3.2 will do that. If I read that thread correctly, the procedures get trickier when the hard drive is really big, but for smaller ones, it's a simple copy command. I think for 3TB, it's that simple command. What about 4TB? are the instructions the same for that as for 3TB? (I assume that for, say, 6TB, the procedure gets more complicated.)
If the procedure is simple for 4TB, and if that is a substantial increase beyond 75 HD hours, I'm leaning on buying a 4TB drive. Assuming so, are there recommendations on what brand I should be getting? I'm not sure how standardized the physical dimensions of HDs are, so I want to make sure I get the right kind that will fit in the Roamio. Or things like power consumption, etc... what all should be I looking out for when choosing a hard drive?
BTW, I think I read that it's possible to put two drives in there, but from photos I've seen it looks to me like there's not enough physical space for that. (Not to mention heat build up problems, and power demands on the power supply). Can that really be done? I'd prefer to stick with one drive, but my wife did ask me if I install a 4 TB drive, and if down the road it gets filled up, is it possible to put a second 4 TB drive in there (for a total of 8 TB)? I'm curious what the answer to that is, but I hope she never asks me to beef it up beyond 4 TB.
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