DIY TiVo Upgrade

Over the past few months I’ve grown very tired of my TivoHD running out of space, not recording scheduled programs, deleting things too early, etc. So I decided it was time to upgrade. The drive that came with my Tivo HD box was 160GB and would only hold a pathetic 20 hours of HD content. So I’ve decided to bump the drive to 1TB, which should get me around 160 HD hours! Here’s what the inside of a Tivo HD box looks like (with the new drive installed).

Pretty simple to figure out. I was able to clone the old 160GB drive and keep all of my recordings and settings on the new drive. Worked like a charm:

The resources I used to do this upgrade can be found at the TiVo Community.

The drive I’m using is a cheap 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black. Currently $99 at Best Buy.