Posted by Telstar on 08/11/07 23:15

"Telstar" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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>> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:20:24 -0400 from (PeteCresswell) <x@y.Invalid>:
>>> Question: How interchangeable/swappable are the drives in these
>>> things? If I buy one with a 160-gig drive and terabyte drives
>>> get cheap next year, is it going to be as simple as swapping out
>>> the drive for one with a similar interface?
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> Absolutely positively NO. Almost all ROMS on these are set for the hard
> drive size for formatting, error recovery etc. There are a few that will
> accept different HDs...but they are few. www.videohelp.com
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>

PS

There was a China company that introduced units with removable hard drives
as a feature of the product (like backup hard drive slots on PCs). You
might want to google.

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