Comments on: Beef Up Your DVR With an Extra Hard Drive

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By: Bryan P

Bryan P — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:32:45 +0000

Felix, Like Jim says- it depends on your DVR. Mine will use an internal and external together. You need to talk to your provider first as some boxes do not have an eSATA port enabled. Some providers (like mine) will also charge a fee to have the external drive connected- not physically, but just to enable it to function.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:17:37 +0000

My TiVo HD will use the internal drive and external together, so this would add 60 hours or so to the existing 20hrs of HD capability I currently have. The TiVo spreads the shows across both drives, so if you want to remove the external one you had better be prepared to lose everything you have recorded! Otherwise you have to watch everything first, then remove the external drive and you are back to the single internal one. Plus, the machine must be turned off to connect or disconnect it!

I think I will wait for a bigger one at a lower price!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:20:46 +0000

Since when was 60 hours of HDTV “plenty for even the stingiest of show hoarders?” That’s a silly, frivolous statement if I ever heard one. That’s a scant 2.5 days, compared to over 2.5 years of iTune podcasts I’ve already downloaded. It’s a drop in the bucket. A drive of this type should begin with at least a terabyte of storage if it’s going to keep halfway up with new TV standards. I hope the clunker isn’t priced over 60 bucks. I’ve already seen Seagate 1 TB drives, with eSATA, selling for under 200 bucks on Amazon.