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Originally Posted by nodrogd
I think you would have trouble beating the amount of times the TiVO firmware fires up the hard drive in standby. It can be 2 or 3 times in any one hour period. If you switch it to always on, it would be permanently buffering 6 channels. Using the off switch is by far the best idea to stop wear and tear.
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Nope. When the box shuts down in standby, it does a controlled unloading of the hard drive. If you just pull the plug, it can't do that.
Plus by powering it off, you are putting it through thermal cycles that can cause damage long term.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Probably a silly question (she controls the TV and associated gubbins) so I've not taken much interest, but . . is it still actual HDD in these boxes, and would/could SSD perform better or am I well behind the times here?  |
It's an actual HDD. It is fast enough to do everything that is required of it, so putting in an SSD would just be a waste of money.
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