What is the largest capacity I can use in RTV30xx series?
You can use up to 137GB drives on RTV20xx, RTV30xx and ShowStoppers. With 2 of these drives in your system you could get up to 274 hours of storage. The sector address limitation on the EIDE standard means that the addressable limit is 131,072 MB (literally 255 * 2^20), so using 160GB or larger drives requires some IDE interface and/or BIOS changes, and this won’t happen in the older units. The RTVPatch program (use version 2.4 or later) automatically limits the used space to 137GB, so it is possible to use 137GB of a 160GB drive. There was a message posted by someone with a friend who had a relative who worked for ReplayTV, stating that ReplayTV software will run out of memory at 150 hours. Granted, this is 4th-hand information, but people with 160 hour upgrades have reported occasional out-of-memory errors, so there probably is some truth to it. The out-of-memory errors typically appear during the network dial-up because that is the most memory intensive operation the unit does. The
