Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB eSATA External Hard Drive by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB eSATA External Hard Drive
Digital camera Review: A must have for TiVo HD
Summary: 5 Stars
A better price than direct from TiVo. It was very easy to install and works seamlessly.
If you have the TiVo HD this is a must have to give you needed storage space.
Digital camera Review: AVOID!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This expander caused me to send back 3 tivos. If you are having Tivo problems disconnect the expander. It causes intermittent problems with Tivo HD receivers.Digital camera Review: 5 Stars
The WD DVR expander added many hours to my day!!! I used to come home to watch all my dvr recordings...all night long!!!! Now I have time to have a life without worrying that I will not have enough time on my DVR to record my shows. No instructions were necessary to set up the DVR expander. Just make sure that you have the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD. Great product!!! I told my friends about the DVR expander and got them to buy it. They love it!!! I am recommending it to everyone!!!!Digital camera Review: An easy expansion to my DVR (unless you have Time Warner Cable)
Summary: 5 Stars
UPDATE 5/19/2010 -
I have Time Warner Cable. They just changed their software (Navigator), and prior to the software change, I was perfectly happy (See "Previous review" which follows).
This external disk does NOT work with Time Warner Cable anymore. This has been confirmed by a Time Warner Technician who visited my home this morning.
This solely a Time Warner Cable software problem, not a problem with the disk per se.
If Time Warner Cable fixes their new software to work with an external disk, I will update this post.
Previous review:
I have owned this for about 9 months now, and am extremely happy with it (that is to say that I have had 0 problems with it, it just sits there and works).
I am using it on Time Warner Cable's Scientific Atlanta 8300 HDC DVR.
The cable that came with it was the correct one for my DVR.
Installation was easy. Unplug the DVR, attach the cable to the DVR and Drive, plugin/power up the drive, plugin the DVR, and follow the instructions when they show up on the TV (drive needs to be formatted).
Voila, about 5 times as much memory. The new problem is that it takes a while to scroll throught all of the recordings to find the one you want to watch.
My only real complaint is that you can't move the drive to a different DVR. If you do, the new DVR will not recognize it and ask if you want to install/reformat it.
Also, you will lose most or all of your recordings if you reboot your DVR w/o the drive once it has been in use.
Evidently, (at least with Time Warner Cable's DVR) the recordings are split between the DVR and the Drive so that neither is whole. This is not the drive's fault, so I can't detract from the drive review.
Digital camera Review: As advertised
Summary: 5 Stars
When I added HD service to my cable, I discovered that the cable box (provided by my provider Cox Cable) stored a woefully small amount of HD programming.
This product was easy to install following the very simple instructions that came with the unit.
It dramatically expanded my recording capabilities.