Bought the PVR off eBay a few years back, came with a 80gb IDE harddrive. There is not a whole lot on TV I watch so 80gb was more than enough for my needs. With the new Free to Air stations though, I've found at times I've filled the drive. Mainly during cricket season.

I had a 250gb SATA drive that was in my home made computer PVR before its motherboard packe it in, so rather than buy a new IDE HDD I looked for ways to use this one. I found an IDE to SATA converter on eBay for ~$7 delivered, only problem was the IDE connector was under the HDD mount, even if I moved the HDD the converter sat too high to put the PVR lid back on. So I soldered together 2 male to male IDE connectors and plugged 2 IDE cabled into each other, which aligned the pins the right way and let me move the converter to under the HDD mount.

A better solution would have been to solder an IDE cable onto and male IDE connector, to properly align the pins, but I don't have a wire stripper for wires that small and couldn't be bothered stripping 40 wires with a knife and soldering the 40 small wires either.

I noticed how hot the 80gb HDD got, knowing a 250gb HDD would get hotter which would lead to early failure, I decided to add a fan while I did the upgrade too. I soldered the fan wires onto the power connector of the SATA converter.