Im reading a lot of news on the web about the Disk Jockey being used to upgrade the hard disk drives inside of a TiVo. How are people using the Disk Jockey with this process?
A. Many people are purchasing the Disk Jockey for fast, sector-by-sector hard disk copies. Inside of a digital video recorder (DVR), like the TiVo, you’ll find a standard IDE hard disk drive. Typically the DVR’s ship with smaller drives, usually between 30 GB – 60 GB limiting the amount of material than can be recorded to the DVR. Many people are “upgrading” their DVR’s to include larger drives. The process is somewhat complex, however, at this time. One of the key steps is doing a sector-by-sector copy of the data that resides on the DVR hard disk drive to the newer, larger hard disk drive. Up until now, this has primarily been done by inserting both hard disk drives inside of a PC, booting up in Unix (or Linux) and completing the copy via software. The downsides of this approach are 1) copy speeds in software are very slow 2) you must have a PC with two empty drive bays 3) you must be comfortable opening up your PC and inserting hard disk drives.
