OK, so I’m a long time TiVO fanatic. I got one when they first came out with the DirecTV TiVO and got a lifetime subscription for a house full of TiVOs. For a long time I was the only one on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a dish poking out my window. All my old Series 1 and 2 TiVOs were upgraded to add additional disk storage (thank you WeaKnees!). When the Series 3 High-Def TiVOs came out for cable only, I finally bid farewell to my satellite feed. I rewired for digital cable and transferred my membership to a pair of new Series 3s.

The Series 3s were expensive, and buying WeaKnees modded 3s with extra disk was prohibitively so. So I got the standard units with 250GB of disk, which sounds like a lot, until you consider that 32 hours of HD content will fill that disk. A couple movies and a season of “Lost” and boom - you are out of space and no more fun “TiVO Suggestions” to look through, and you have to trim your subscriptions down to saving just 1 or 2 episodes. To add insult to injury, there is a tempting eSATA jack for “Expansion Disk” that isn’t enabled yet.

Life is now good - Kickstart 62 is here! (Actually it was always there, built in my the wonderful TiVO engineers who love back doors. Thank you!) Last night I upgraded my living room TiVO to a whopping 1 Terabyte of storage using a very-cool-in-its-own-right Newer Tech miniStack 750gb eSATA drive from OWC.

Engadget recently posted how to finally use that jack here. However I actually found this post from MFS Live better because you absolutely have to do your “6″ “2″ kickstart when the orange LED is the only one on.

Enjoy!!!