ST3500601XSRK - Seagate eSATA External Hard Drive 500 GB - 7200 rpm - External - Retail
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Manufacturer: Seagate TechnologyModel: ST3500601XS-RK
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Digital camera Review: A Must Have for your DVR
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this unit to add badly needed additional capacity to my Scientific Atlanta HD cable box/DVR which came with a 40 gb drive. If you have a DVR you know how addictively convenient they are, and how quickly you can fill up the standard capacity. Most DVRs have a little socket on the back of the unit with an eSATA label. It is small-less than half the size of a USB socket. My cable company (Time Warner) does not officially support the attachment of an external drive, so you won't get any tech support directly from them. I have been told that the age of the box may be a limiting factor if the firmware is not very recent the port may not be active.
This drive was perfect for my needs-it is compact, nearly invisible when nestled between equipment(it has a black case rather than the grayish one in the photo) except for the blue activity light,and it is nearly silent at my normal viewing distance. You will need to purchase a cable (Amazon carries those) to hook this up. Through trial and some error, I found that my DVR would recognize the external drive if I powered down the box and unplugged it from AC power. Then I hooked up the drive, turned it on, then powered the cable box back up. That caused a reboot, and it recognized the external drive. Initially, it did not show any additional capacity (the percentage of space used was unchanged), but by the next day it correctly included the external drive capacity. This drive is a simple way to greatly increase your DVR storage capcity. Highly recommended. Unfortunately, this particular model is discontinued, but look for an external drive with an eSATA interface from Seagate (or manufacturer of your choice) and you should be fine.
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Seagate 500GB External SATA Hard Drive. State of the art eSATA technology brings breakthrough 3Gb/s performance to digital video workstations, entry-level servers, and desktop systems. When you?re working with digital video, music, graphics production or other data intensive applications, you need all the speed you can get. And these eSATA drives provide it. All in a sleek, durable, and stackable external hard drive. They?re up to 5 times faster than Firewire 1394 and USB 2.0!External Hard Drives
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