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Pre-order a TiVo Cache Card

One of the most common annoyances for people running hacked TiVos (or even non-hacked ones), is that the TiVo takes forever to generate a list of all television shows or even schedule a recording. The problem is that the TiVo's database is huge and all read/writes go to the hard disk -- something which is incredibly slow.

9th tee (purveyors of the TurboNET, the Ethernet add-on to Series 1 TiVo's) has started pre-ordering for the TiVo CacheNET. This card is a combination Ethernet card, and a slot for a 512MB SDRAM stick -- with it installed you can hopefully keep the entire TiVo database in RAM (a lot faster than the hard disk), and still keep your network interface.

You know I'm ordering one right now.

by Raffi Krikorian December 1, 2003

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