How Do You Upgrade Tivo?
Many owners of TiVo brand DVRs find the unit’s limited amount of storage space annoying. But you can upgrade a TiVo unit to store hundreds of hours of programming. The job can be as simple as replacing the hard drive with a preformatted unit from an online vendor, but technically savvy people can save money by formatting the hard drive themselves. Decide how much of the work you want to do yourself. You can buy and install a preformatted expansion drive or buy an unformatted hard drive and do the formatting yourself. The more work you do yourself, the cheaper the upgrade will be. But be sure you have enough confidence and technical knowledge to open a personal computer, install the new hard drive and format it yourself using special TiVo formatting software. Find the right drive. TiVos use one of two types of hard drives, either IDE—sometimes called ATA—drives or SATA drives. If you are unsure about what type of drive you need, you can find out by searching hard-drive sales sites l
