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Day: October 18, 2006

TiVo External SATA Bypass

October 18, 2006 by Will O'Brien 4 Comments


TiVo left the external SATA port on the series three disabled. [Lightrunner] bypassed this silly restriction by adding a sata to esata cable (AFAIK the only difference is the shape of the connector and shielding on the cable.) and a nice big SATA RAID array. Silly TiVo, massive recording storage is for everyone.

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