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I have a TiVo Premiere (746320) with Lifetime Service, it works well most of the time, but occasionally there's pixellation or a momentary freeze. I assume this is likely a HD starting to fail but could it be something else?
Also, if it does need a new HD, I don't want to put much $ into this TiVo at this time (end of the winter season, i.e. I'll be leaving CableCard territory in about a month). I'm willing to put in something bigger in (say) Nov 2019, but I'd hate to buy a 1TB or 2TB HD for it now and get another Bolt Vox upgrade offer like Summer 2018 (and in 2017? I forget). This year I might take advantage of it (if it comes).
I found one seller on eBay who's selling 500GB drives pulled from "new" TiVo Premieres, I assume TiVo or someone scrapped the unsold units and the buyer pulled the drives as the only valuable part. The drive is super cheap but it sounds like they might have wiped it. How hard would it be to re-initialize and install the Premiere software? I'm somewhat technical (i.e. can follow instructions
but can't find any newer than really old. I don't mind investing some effort into a cheap drive, but if this is going to get expensive, I'd rather leave my existing drive and spend the $150 or $200 (for 1TB or 2TB) in November, by which point I'll know if I'm going to keep using this device.
BTW the Premiere is showing its age in other ways, we tried to watch a livestream on YouTube yesterday, it kept freezing then restarting and I thought our WiFi was flaky. Switched from casting to the Premiere's YT app to the (TCL Roku 2017) TV's YT app, and it was fine. We use the Comcast box for Xfinity On Demand, the TV for Netflix, Prime Video, YT, etc., and just use the Premiere for recorded content. Which is fine but it makes me nervous even that will fail (thus my thought of getting a newer box, but no way will I pay $550 for Lifetime Service).
Thanks!
=aw
Also, if it does need a new HD, I don't want to put much $ into this TiVo at this time (end of the winter season, i.e. I'll be leaving CableCard territory in about a month). I'm willing to put in something bigger in (say) Nov 2019, but I'd hate to buy a 1TB or 2TB HD for it now and get another Bolt Vox upgrade offer like Summer 2018 (and in 2017? I forget). This year I might take advantage of it (if it comes).
I found one seller on eBay who's selling 500GB drives pulled from "new" TiVo Premieres, I assume TiVo or someone scrapped the unsold units and the buyer pulled the drives as the only valuable part. The drive is super cheap but it sounds like they might have wiped it. How hard would it be to re-initialize and install the Premiere software? I'm somewhat technical (i.e. can follow instructions
but can't find any newer than really old. I don't mind investing some effort into a cheap drive, but if this is going to get expensive, I'd rather leave my existing drive and spend the $150 or $200 (for 1TB or 2TB) in November, by which point I'll know if I'm going to keep using this device.BTW the Premiere is showing its age in other ways, we tried to watch a livestream on YouTube yesterday, it kept freezing then restarting and I thought our WiFi was flaky. Switched from casting to the Premiere's YT app to the (TCL Roku 2017) TV's YT app, and it was fine. We use the Comcast box for Xfinity On Demand, the TV for Netflix, Prime Video, YT, etc., and just use the Premiere for recorded content. Which is fine but it makes me nervous even that will fail (thus my thought of getting a newer box, but no way will I pay $550 for Lifetime Service).
Thanks!
=aw
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