The RD-X5, Toshiba's 1,071-hour digital video recorder
By Peter Rojas 
posted September 29th 2004 10:19AM
posted September 29th 2004 10:19AM
We still have a 14-hour TiVo kicking around here somewhere, which is why we were almost ashamed to discover the RD-X5, Toshiba's new DVD recorder with a 600GB hard drive that just came out in Japan that can store up to 1,071 hours of television. Or just to break that down for you, you could record TV shows 24 hours a day for over a month and still a few hundred hours of recording time left over. We'd mumble something about overkill, but we're sure that the switchover to HDTV will kill any notion that you can ever possibly have too much storage space on your digital video recorder.
How much HDTV will 600GB hold?
A DVR has to be specifically built to record HD signals...so unless they are..it can only record analog.
Tivo came up with a Tivo HD Hardware spec, but there were no manufactures that wanted to build one. Currently only the only HD option with Tivo is to get a Direct TV version.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151443
So, is this a 600GB single drive or 2x300 in Raid0 or JBOD? I hadn't heard of any manufacturers making 600GB HDDs yet, but if it is the case I'm more interested in where I can find those than the DVR.
I could see the utility if it not only recorded video from a television signal, but also ripped DVDs and put them on the hard disk so you could store your whole DVD collection online.