Replace Drive(s) on DirectTV DSR6000R01

[TivoSchemvo]

Evening everyone.

I have a hand-me-down DirectTV DSR6000R01, and the bearings on one of the drives is starting to go bad. (high pitched noise). This box has the original 40GB drive, and the previous owner had already added a second 160GB drive. I'm not sure which one is noisy, but both drives are getting up there in age, so I figure I'd rather just take both drives out and replace with one single drive if possible.

What kind of modifications will be needed to revert this back to a single drive? Also are there any limitations on what speed drives I can use? (5400rpm is OK?) What about using a notebook drive since those are nice and quiet?

[Lou Jacob]

Evening everyone.

I have a hand-me-down DirectTV DSR6000R01, and the bearings on one of the drives is starting to go bad. (high pitched noise). This box has the original 40GB drive, and the previous owner had already added a second 160GB drive. I'm not sure which one is noisy, but both drives are getting up there in age, so I figure I'd rather just take both drives out and replace with one single drive if possible.

What kind of modifications will be needed to revert this back to a single drive? Also are there any limitations on what speed drives I can use? (5400rpm is OK?) What about using a notebook drive since those are nice and quiet?

The quickest and easiest thing to do would be to remove both drives, and replace with a single drive that has already been prepared for installation in your unit. You can do this using one of our kits shown here (http://tinyurl.com/56j8zo).

Another thing you can do is use InstantCake to prepare a hard drive for installation in your unit; more details on InstantCake can be found here (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5), and you can use practically any PATA/IDE drive for your unit; RPM and cache size don't make one bit of difference, so just pick out a decent quality drive (and ensure you fully test it, first).

If you are looking to do things completely DIY, you would need to backup the software from your existing unit and for that, using MFStools or MFSlive will work fine. Preserving your content is possible using MFSlive, but you'll need to use a drive that is larger than the two originals, and the process will take some time. You can read about MFSlive here (http://mfslive.org).

[TivoSchemvo]

Cool, thanks for the info, just what I needed to know.