For the hard drive, Videotron engineers are testing 3 models that could be sold to clients that need one. If I remember its from Maxtor, Seagate and WD. Witch one will it be I don't know and even less when.
I did it and it was working excep i couldnt record anything becaus i didnt have enough space to work with. I used a 10G HD that was laying around just to try it. The drive has to be new or low level formated.
Only cause i had it on hand and wanted to see if the machine would even work with it into it. My warranty was almost done so i didnt care. I had to snap out the pin in the middle of each screw to be able to use a torx screwdriver. First time i booted with it i forgot to put the jumper on master and the machine booted but i couldnt reven see the list. Later that day i realized that and reopened the box and tried it again and it worked.