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kturcotte said:
I was planning on updating my HDVR2s with 300 GB hard drives, but I think I'm going to with 500 GBs, seen here: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822147008 This will work with 6.2 software, correct? I've heard that the swap file needs to be larger after hitting 250 GB. Is that true? Will Instant Cake recognize the hard drive size and automatically implement the correct swap file?
We've only tested InstantCake on drives as large as 400GB, but I don't know of any reason why it shouldn't work on a 500GB.
As for swap file, in spite of the repeated obsessiveness of a few folks at tivocommunity, its irrelevent except for the fact that having one is much better than not having one.
Ironically, some of those folks on TCF think they are creating larger swap files on units such as these and what they are doing is creating a scenario where they don't have one at all.
Not going to get into the details of it all as I am tired of attempting to educate and re-educate folks on the issue, but suffice it to say that you need not worry about swap file size; InstantCake creates one that is 127MB and that is just fine (it has been for the last 5+ years and it will continue to be...).
Thx
For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
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