Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1S5000VN by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDG1S5000VN
Digital camera Review: Works great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had it installed about one month now and it's great. I notice no performance different at all. I now have much more space to leave shows on my TiVo HD.Digital camera Review: DVR Storage
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know about you but I like to watch TV without the commercials. There are quite a few programs that are in High Def. and take up allot of space and some nights there are two on at a time. Sometimes 3 or 4 programs at a time so the DVR's fill up fast. With the addition of this hard drive you can fit quite a bit more and once installed you don't have to do anything. It works seamlessly and you won't even know it is there. The only difference is it holds a lot more programs. It is easy to install all you have to do is plug it in reboot format when it tells you to and that is it you are done. So easy anyone can do it.Digital camera Review: Lifespan
Summary: 1 Stars
I, like many others, was attracted to this unit by it's promised simplicity of expansion for my TiVo Series III HD. I bought it a little less than 2 years ago. it worked up until about a month ago when I began to experience pixelation, audio dropouts, and grey screens on certain channels. It turns out the the expander was failing. I did manage to get most of my recordings transferred before it completely failed. I'd rate the lifespan as totally unacceptable. A quick scan of forums like AVS shows that a lot of people are now experiencing these failures. I would not buy one again.Digital camera Review: ReviewToday
Summary: 4 Stars
Probably through no fault of Western Digital, makers of this unit, I had to try a couple of re-starts before the unit appeared as a storage extension to my DVR, a Scientific Atlanta HD8300. The sequence of events necessary to make this Expander work with the DVR were written into the guide, but it took those re-starts/re-tries to finally hit the magic combination.
I was always having to erase recorded TV shows before watching them to make room for new recorded shows prior to this unit being installed, commonly running at 93 to 98% full. Now I am recording shows more easily, without deleting shows so quickly, and only running at about 30% capacity. I think this was a GREAT investment.
Based on previous reviews, it wasn't clear if my adding the Expander to my DVR would result in losing my recordings I had so far (though it seemed that the issue was with TiVOs). I will report that after successfully adding the Expander on my Scientific Atlanta DVR, old recordings were still there and fully viewable.
Digital camera Review: Great investment for avid TV viewers
Summary: 5 Stars
We are so spoiled by high def TV, that we hate to record in lo def when the DVR gets close to full. With the expander, we were able to go on a two-week vacation, record all our shows in high def, and still have plenty of capacity to record while catching up with our shows. We can't rate the device on lifespan, but we are very happy with it so far.