TiVo

TiVo Mega

Running out of room on your DVR sucks, no doubt. Is it enough of a problem for you to throw $5,000 at it? For most people, the answer is no, but in case it’s a real issue you need to remedy, the new TiVo Mega should alleviate all of your first-world concerns. This huge, server-sized TiVo contains a whopping 24TB of storage in a RAID 5 arrangement with hot-swappable drives. What that really means is you’ll have enough space to store 26,000 hours of SD footage. As TiVo says, that works out to about three years of TV, but the devil is in the details. Most people these days are watching and recording TV in HD, and that works out to “only” 4,000 hours — about five months. That’s not nearly as sexy a number as three years, but that’s still probably more than enough storage for most human beings.

Read the full story at The Verge.

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