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Western Digital My DVR extender. Its awesome.

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Lifer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136259

EDIT: forget what I wrote below the bolded part.
My DVR developed a glitch when playing back recorded programs. Every 2-3 minutes the picture would break up for a second. Very annoying. Problem resolved when I removed the MY DVR hard drive.
Damn.
I knew it was a crapshoot since a lot of people had problems, but it seemed to be working. However, I hadn't sat down to watch a full show, and when I did I found the problem a deal breaker.

The last piece of my home theater upgrade came today. Its the 500 gb. eSATA Western Digital My DVR extender.
Plugged this little baby in, followed directions. Had to reboot my cable box one extra time to get the dvr to correctly display free space, but otherwise, its way easy to install.
Scientific Atlanta 8300 hd dvr box thru Comcast.

Surprisingly neither the Comcast techs nor the Regional Supervisor could tell me what external drives were supported, despite their website saying to call for a list of drives that are supported.

Thankfully the intertubes were full of people who said this model would work on mine,

So my previous 160 gb built in hard drive gave me 20 hours of HD recording. Now I can get about 80 hours.
Wow. Now when there is a marathon of some HD show I want to watch, I can save every epi and watch at my leisure.
79.99 with free shipping from the Egg. Though it did take a whole 20 hours to arrive!
 
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You could have gone with a 1tb drive for only $20 more. Not bad though. I didn't know they made receiver boxes with eSATA outputs on them.
 
mmntech said:
You could have gone with a 1tb drive for only $20 more. Not bad though. I didn't know they made receiver boxes with eSATA outputs on them.
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Crikey! Then I would have 140 hours of HD available!
I would never leave the house.

btw many of the boxes are just labeled SATA. You have to look in at the connector to see its really eSATA.
And some cable companies do not have that port enabled.
Fortunately Comcast, at least in my area, does.
 
My dad had similar problems when they went to the new boxes. He lost all FFW and RW capability and had some other glitching. It all went away when he took out the external drive.
 
I've had a Seagate 750GB 7200.10 on my DirecTV HR20 for almost 3 years now. I bought my own enclosure for about $25 and just stuffed the drive in. Rules.

I recommended a similar setup to a friend at work - she has Charter though, so she has a Moxi and uses USB. We got her the same enclosure and a 1TB drive. She LOVES it. That's been going for almost a year and aside from her Moxi taking a dump at one point - the drive has worked fine. I am pretty sure we went Seagate 7200.11 - she is happy with the drive.

I previously used a MyBook 500GB on a Moxi - and sold that to my friend when I went with DirecTV. He's still using it. That drive must be 4 years old now.
 
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