RE: Tivo Help!

["John McManus" <jpm.egroup1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have two Samsung 120GB (5400 spin speed) in my TiVo... during summer they
were getting to 42C.

Been running successfully for 18 months (touch wood).
-----Original Message-----
From: Ho Yin Ng [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 December 2004 12:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Tivo Help!


Sorry but I wouldn't touch a Maxtor or IBM with a barge pole!

Samsung .. I don't know .. I have never used them.

I would never go for anything unless it had either a Western Digital or
Segate sticker on it.

I am not speaking from reviews but from experience ...

I have gone through about 5 Maxtors and 5 IBMs ...

All my Segates and WDs have outlasted all of the above.

I have about 5 WDs and 8 Segates.

Ho yin

At 10:30 13/12/2004, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>After my Tivo suffering a third hard drive problem in 2 years
>(tick-tick-tick-tick and no boot-up) and now needing another
replacement,
>it's beginning to lose WAF big time!
>
>So far I've gone through Samsung, Maxtor and IBM (Hitachi) drives, all
120
>gig.  The Samsung lasted about a year, the Maxtor 5 months and the IBM
7
>months.
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>Am I just unlucky, doing something incredibly wrong, or could it be an
>indication of a more serious problem with the Tivo itself?  The Tivo is
used
>fairly heavily and is always left on if that might make a
difference.....
>
>
>Also, if anybody can help out with copies of the following programs
(either
>for download or posting on dvd / vcd / video / etc) to pacify SWMBO I'd
be
>extremely grateful!
>
>(in order of importance!)
>
>Battlestar Galactica - episode from around 6th December (Sky 1)
>Hex - final episode of the series from a few weeks back (Sky 1)
>The 4400 - pilot double episode (Sky 1)
>The 4400 - episode 2 from around the 28th November (Sky 1)
>The 4400 - episode 3 from around the 5th December (Sky 1)
>The 4400 - episode 4 last night 12th December (Sky 1)
>QI - episode from Friday night 10th December (BBC 3?)
>Jonathon Ross - episode from Friday night 10th December (BBC 1)
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Martyn
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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