tanstaafl: It's the only way you'll keep your sanity.

Keep? OK, but first I gotta work on regain.

I'm probably what would be called a binge viewer. Don't watch anything for a month (or may be away from home for that long) then pull a 3-day lethargython in front of the tube. Having a lot to pick from would be good. Also, I've been recording stuff like WRC in "Best" mode for transfer to videotape for archiving/sharing. In theory this 30GB is only 9 hours at Best quality ( true??) Sure, the Simpsons probably won't get that treatment, but I will still probably add a 2nd drive.

One of the next steps will be to add a TivoNet interface (not to dump my Tivo subscription, though it could prepare me for that) so as to use the scripts that are floating around out there to transfer Tivo MPEGs like WRC to my Linux server for creation of archive VCDs