Actually you couldn't replace the hard drive cheaply and still have it work properly. These boxes use specialized hard drives which can read/write at the same time. Although you could possibly purchase a larger hard drive of the same type it would still be expensive and you may run into problems where the device expects the drive to be properly formatted or set up before it's use and you may run into problems of software not being on the drive. You're probably better off buying the capacity you wish because the drives are not your average run of the mill. Now if someone is daring enough to disect one and analyze it that might be different:)
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Actually you couldn't replace the hard drive cheaply and still have it work properly. These boxes use specialized hard drives which can read/write at the same time. Although you could possibly purchase a larger hard drive of the same type it would still be expensive and you may run into problems where the device expects the drive to be properly formatted or set up before it's use and you may run into problems of software not being on the drive. You're probably better off buying the capacity you wish because the drives are not your average run of the mill. Now if someone is daring enough to disect one and analyze it that might be different :)