The new hard drive is definately quieter!

The third drive died in less than a weekend

It is my opinion that it is not advantageous for cable companies to allow customers to install external hard drives.

I purchased this hard drive to augment storage on my Dish DVR

At least it will work as a USB computer hard drive so not all is lost.

I now have hard drive space for a total of 192 hours of HD programming (much more with SD programing); I don't think I'll ever manage to use all of that!

So I think the eSATA cable is more likely to cause a problem than the external hard drive itself.

After many failed attempts of following dvr instructions and not having dvr show external hard drive.

This hard drive works just great with my Tivo Series3

I did have another external drive with another TiVo one in between the series 2 and the present one and it died as did the external drive at the time I suspected electrical since it was not on clean power but that has since been rectified as I use an APC home theater system with a ton of outlets in addition to the whole home surge system.

So many of us have DVRs that have limited hard drive space

Just need to set it all up, then plug the sata cable in the hard drive for it be read

Addendum:I know there is a hard drive shortage at the moment (Jan-Mar 2012) and these drives are hard to find, but stay away from these price gougers!!

Go ahead and install the hard drive.

the genies will "see" the full 4 TB worth of space (note that the genie 2 comes with 2 TB worth of hard drive space just "by itself" which might be enough for your family's use anyways, you know best how much recording space your family needs :) ) ... at which point I'll transfer this anker/seagate hard drive setup to the genie.. in the meantime the anker/seagate hard drive combo worked flawlessly with my HR-24, didn't even need to "format" itself like the WD expander, just started working immediately and is still working great one week later

so I had to pay to send the bad drive back to

Little slow on transfers, but Dish's fault (USB), not the hard drive

Connect the other end of the eSATA cable to the eSATA port on the external hard drive.

There should be some kind of indicator to alert the user when the drive begins to deteriorate

*Select the DVR Expander hard drive (make sure it is the 1000 GB USB drive)

Impossible to save programs from the internal DVR hard drive

The hard drives in our Cable boxes have not yet failed

I selected yes, and got the message "hard drive being formatted."

Due to the new Echo Passport software, this drive will not work with the EXPLORER 8240HDC or 8300HDC!!

Not faulting the WD drive but it is a Fios thing.

The DVR displayed a formatting prompt so that the drive would become available for recording

Another minor issue, the expander box cannot be paired with a different TiVo once paired with an initial TiVo without completely erasing the drive

The included cable continues to perform great, as well as the hard drive itself

This hard drive was easy to install and worked perfectly with my PVR

Go back to dvr/configure and upgrade/external hard drive

When you turn the cable box on again or the cablebox powers up from sleep mode, this external hard drive is not recognized, and sometimes all I get is a black screen that forces me to reboot my cable box

Prior to adding this hard drive, I had approximately 39 hours of programming recorded, and the DVR interface indicated 95% full

I can access recordings on both hard drives.

The hard drive itself is usually still good and can be used as a backup drive.

If anyone got this hard drive to wok with Comcast's/Xfinity's new X1 DVR, I'd appreciate your listing the exact steps you used to make it work

WD makes great hard drives in general.

This is after a Verizon tech was at house for another issue, and he had no experience with external hard drives, was no help and had incorrect info

> Remote, CableCARD, & Devices > External Storage) and the drive was ready for use.

I find performance wise you're going to take a bit of a hit, slower than if you were relying on just the hard drive within the DVR (which let's face it doesn't have a big enough hard drive or you wouldn't be looking at this product in the first place)... but the trade off to me is worth it in terms of increased storage

The drive makes just a bit more noise than the Tivo, but nothing you'll notice while watching a program

A call to WD resulted in a suggestion to erase the drive and reconnect it so the DVR will reformat it again

After the reboot and restart I confirmed all my old recording were still on the hard drive where I left them as were all the programs that I had scheduled to record

but I mostly bought the drive hoping it was quieter than the built-in hard drive which make a ticking sound that can keep you awake in a quiet room.

I have a Verizon FIOS DVR and this drive was super easy to hook up.

I orginally had the hard drive plugged into the wall outlet

External hard drive now shows up.

I love transferring some of my movies to this hard drive to save!

Three failed drives in 4 months was simply too coincidental to blame entirely on the WD MyDVR Expander and I began to suspect that the TiVo itself was part of the problem

Everyone that has the sa 8300 box when u go to turn the tv on the box usually says Hard drive powering up it wont see the wd hdd

If you unplug this external hard drive you will lose all of the memory from your Playlist.

Directv HR24-500 internal hard drive started dying

First, I turned on the TV and plugged in the power to the Hard Drive.

Be sure to place external hard drive next to your TiVO DVR, not on top of it

This Drive is compatible with my Tivo Series 3 (HD dual tuner DVR) & I have had no problems at all from set up to

Dish only lists three hard drives, the WD My Book AV, Hitachi XL 1000, and the Seagate Showcase.

I have searched Comcast message boards regarding the DCX3400 and it seems like their attitude is give the WD external drive a chance and if it doesn't work properly, you can get a compatible DVR instead.

More disturbing are instances when the DVR fails to properly access the hard drive and there may be a a loss of the program that was to be recorded.

Check your DVR software and call your cable company before you order any external hard drive.

Well, it became available in my state/city finally but my dvr was not listed as being compatible to use this hard drive with.

Just to give an idea of the amount of space that's in this DVR Expander hard drive

Connecting too soon won't hurt STB, or drive, you just won't see the drive.

After opening the box with the hard drive, I noticed that on the back of the hard drive, the DC power and the USB recepticle ports were not aligned with the hard drive chassis opening.

I could get a 2 TB hard drive for the same price I paid for this 1 TB.

The drive is quiet and I would not hesitate using this in a bedroom.

Also sounds like hard drive head is moving a lot... quite audible sometimes.

I could leisurely go through the matches over multiple days and still only had the drive at less than 50%.Would highly recommend to anyone who has a DVR that supports an external e-SATA drive and needs more recording space..

To put it bluntly, if you are a Cablevision customer, save yourself a lot of aggravation and do not buy this external hard drive.

External hard drive should show up in your fios menu

I changed the setting to keep the hard drive on at all times and so far I have not had any nore issues

The DirecTV internal drive is TRASHED!

The drive works well enough, but it's one more thing to plug in and provides a second point of failure.

Before I purchased this external hard drive for my Explorer 8240HDC, I read several posts that stated that is works with this dvr, this is false!!

: This is the hard drive model that Charter lists as a compatible model with specific DVRs on one of their technical help sites.

I didn't notice any change, except that I have a huge amount of hard drive space.

If you want to expand a Tivo Premiere's recording capacity you can open the unit and change out the hard drive, but that is not a project most people will be able to do easily.

When I read the reviews on this item I was amazed on how many good reviews there was on the hard drive

so I could start recording and another day to automatically upload the entire programming guide to the new hard drive

So far, everything related to this hard drive has been great.

but you'll have to write zeros to the DVR Expander hard drive before you follow the procedure above.

I bought this hard drive to expand my Verizon Fios DVR.

I planned to use eSATA, but liked the fact the Western Digital site specifically listed this new drive as compatible with the HR20.I ordered it and followed the simple installation instructions on the DirecTV website.

I have been using this hard drive for about 2 1/2 months with the scientific atlanta

This product is very nice, I am able to use it to back up my computer with the idea of using it later for a media drive!Good price, nice product!

So it's not like you can have several eSATA drives on a shelf and just swap them around as off-line storage devices.

I already have 10 2 TB hard drives but had to buy this one because it's the only one that works with the Tivo with the lousy tuner

Since Dish recommends this unit, I decided to go with this rather than to experiment with other external hard drives out there.

and they tell me that the DCX3400/3400M DOES NOT support an external drive, in spite of the fact that they have documentation on the internet that not only states that the DVR does support the WD DVR Expander but also explains exactly how to install it

Copying Video programs from your DVR to the My Book takes pretty much the same time you'd expect with any hard drive

Very fine product that allows me not to worry about overloading my hard drive.

This process took no time at all as the unit rebooted and my drive was available

I mentioned is designed specifically for DVR's of various sorts and gets good reviews online for it's rugged durability - it's also the "cousin" of the seagate pipeline hard drives that were originally installed in older Direct TV DVR's).Have been using this for close to three months now without issue with our Direct TV service.. did a great job of expanding the amount of space available to us for recorded shows

I had trouble with other hard drives but this one was recognized and formatted right away....

Haven't noticed any issues with playback, but from what I've read online and been told by TW, you cannot transfer recorded content from one DVR to another by moving the drive around, nor can you disconnect the drive without risking the loss of all recorded programming (even that on the DVR itself)

Another issue with 2 previous brands was the hard drive would freeze (like on a daily basis) and we'd have to reboot the drive.

Sadly, the drive lacks any documentation whatsoever, support is minimal, and the drive simply doesn't want to work with my Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HDC from Time Warner Cable

, then the "Almost there" screen for awhile (I really hate that screen...brings back awful memories of former failed hard drives!

Took a chance that this would work with MOXI DVR from Charter Cable as even the techs from Charter Cable couldn't tell me any brand external hard drive would

Ensure that the external hard drive is plugged in and powered on.

The hard drive was received in good condition, was easy to install (all necessary cables included), and appears to work as stated.

and I could move them to the My Book hard drive

I purchased the Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander because I wanted to add hard drive space without having to hack the TiVo and the new hard drive

just hot-plugged the drive while watching TV.

Cons:- Still a little pricey when compared to a standard USB external hard drive with the same capacity

I tried using an external ESATA box I had laying around with a hard drive, and it worked for a while, but even after trying two drives, they would eventually failed after a couple months causing the UI to stutter and pause and make even going to the guide almost impossible- and playback was a slideshow

Direct TV told me that it would only replace their DVR built in hard drive, but not work as an addition to it

Third drive has been working fine since January.

The recordings on my DVR's internal hard drive would stutter intermittently (but play back fine if I rewind a few seconds), or not be playable at all

It works well as a backup drive

Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive

Just note .... it disables the DVR drive and uses the external drive

Excellent hard drive that is compatible with my Verizon Cable Box

When I ordered my TiVo ages ago, I got it through Weaknees with an upgraded hard drive

When you disconnect the box the drive is unreadable in Windows.

I have probably purchased 15-20 hard drives over the years and have used the warranty on two.

Works with my TIVO as well, an extra bonus, the drive is quiet and generates very little heat.

The built in hard drive for my dvr could hold maybe 10 hours of hd programming, with this product it increased that amount 10 fold

Excellent drive, works well with my TiVo HD

You'll need a realize that with this external drive (quiet) hooked up, the DVR no longer recognizes your internal

so sadly we Tivo owners must go to TiVo to buy our hard drive expanders.

In my experience, WD drives have been very reliable and so far, this has not disappointed.

All I can say is that it worked for me.--One of the best things about being a TiVo user is the ease of expanding the recording capacity by adding larger aftermarket hard drives

A message will display onscreen, prompting you to format your external hard drive

Then I saw this AV 1T external hard drive on Amazon

Western digital hard drive for Directv works well

You will be prompted on the TV screen to format the external hard drive, and asked "Are you sure

Desktop External Hard Drive WDBABT0010HBK-NESNhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/

After confirming, within a few seconds it said the drive was ready

Web research told me the problem was with the expander drive itself, so I returned it for exchange.

I backed up 170GB from my solid-state laptop drive in 40 minutes!

This eSata hard drive is advertized on the Verizon web site as the extension for their DVR

Directv does not transfer the shows and settings you have saved on the internal hard drive to the new drive, so you start with a clean drive

The external hard drive arrived on time, was easy to set up and seems to be working just fine.

got this to backup my DISH DVR which has experienced two hard drive failures, wiping out hours of stored and purchased programs.

1 TB eSata external hard drive is well worth the price.

Perhaps it's just me, but at almost two years in and the hard drive is getting a little

Amazon was very cooperative with our return of the hard drive.

Called Cox to see if there is any way to back up the DVR shows on the SA 8300HD hard drive.

As mentioned by one user, I just un-plugged my TIVO unit then using eSATA cable provided within the western digital box, connected the hard drive to TIVO unit

Like all the rest of the hard drives I've tried, this one failed also on the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HDC from Time Warner

As we record all shows when possible in HD, the hard drive on the DVR was

But now thinking of getting Direct TV which the Western Digital My Book AV 1 TB,External Hard Drive, DVR EXPANDER works with as well.

The instructions were simple, Unplug DVR, connect external hard drive to DVR , plug power cord into E/HD, plug DVR back in

My WD drive that had a power supply failure connected very well with the eSATA connection, but this hard drive won't connect with the eSATA connection, but does with the USB 2.0 connection.

Although this device is advertised as an expander, when connecting it to a Directv HR20 DVR it only allows you to access the external hard drive

Western Digital is a top brand of Hard drives

Be sure to notice "external hard drives are not available with XFINITY on the X1 Entertainment Operating System".

There are much faster drives available for less than this one

Finally, the support rep said I might want to try exchanging the drive (even though the drive seemed fine and was able to be used from my computer with no problem), but offered the possibility of using WD's free Data Lifeguard utility to "erase the formatting" on the drive by writing zeros to it as a last hope

You can go to channel 1999 before/after adding the hard drive and scroll down to DVR AVFS (I think) and it will show you available DVR space.

It does work fine with a desktop and a straight external hard drive and a good value for the money.

Recommend the WD hard drive to every one who likes saving TV shows and has a DVR.

This drive is great

not the hard drive

I went from in a week already using about 60% of my hard drive to only using about 20%

this external hard drive is great

Follow the easy instructions and boot up the hard drive after the DVR is up and running

this external hard drive is great

Setup was awkward for a little while because I had initially pre-loaded some video files onto the hard drive before installation, thinking I would be able to play them on my Tivo, but apparently that's not allowed

Recommend the WD hard drive to every one who likes saving TV shows and has a DVR.

There is not much more I can say at this time with the hard drive I am using.

The typical external hard drives for computers come in tight cases with no chance for the drive to cool off unless you shut it off, or unless it is designed to shut off when not used

I called cable to see if they can stop the sleep mode on the cable box meaning the hard drive in the cable box has to power up feature

This drive has worked perfectly for more than a hear now.

Only problem is the time left on the DVR hard drive is separate from the expander

This drive works perfectly with the Motorola DCT3416 on Cox Cable (Tulsa area)

however, there must be other bloat ware or OS on the primary hard drive because I would say our capacity is at least 4x better than before.

Connect the hard drive in the back of the unit3.

Be sure to notice "external hard drives are not available with XFINITY on the X1 Entertainment Operating System".

This is the only extension hard drive that TiVo will recognize

The drive works great

I was satisfied with the length of time the drive lasted since it was on 24/7 and under constant use daily as new shows were saved and deleted ones got written over

Following the directions on the Direct Tv website I hooked it up and fired the new hard drive and then the dvr

This is advantageous because if need to ever replace your set top box, you won't loose any of your shows because it's stored on your external hard drive.

different video content takes up different amounts of space on the hard drive depending on how much motion there is recorded

I own several Western Digital external hard drives

I have used the My Book as an external hard drive and have found them to be reliable but fragile

After spending a long time with TiVo support (they're great, BTW) troubleshooting, it turns out that this drive is the culprit and it interferes with TiVo startup when bad

The hard drive crashed on it with no way to retrieve the 100+ hrs already recorded on there

Last one I installed another 250 gig hard drive, which was fine for broadcast.

But I have edited video copied to the hard drive, and there was no problem there

To mu surprise, there was absolutely no fan at all to cool the drive

REALLY) old stock.you can get a drive with 2-3 times the storage and USB 3.0 (much faster) for the same price, maybe even lessDONT BUY THIS!!!

The Verizon site says that the use of an external hard drive will make your existing internal hard drive unrecognizable.

There is no change in the performance of the playback when viewing recordings stored on the external hard drive

Unfortunately, the company only recommends 5 different models of hard drives to go with it--all of which are Seagate external hard drives.

It didn't immediately recognize the hard drive, rather I had to go through the menus on the DVR to enable external storage.

Hooked it up to computer to use it as a hard drive and it showed as a completely different unit, not the same model number as on the box and website.

After several attempts my Tivo finally recognized the hard drive and everthing works fine now.

The drive itself is compact and very quiet.

In any case, I used to get hiccups when recording and playing back at the same time using a 2.5" portable drive.

It only has a 160GB hard drive, which may have been good in the standard definition days, but is way too small in the high definition era

Drive runs extremely quiet and works great.

Drive runs extremely quiet and works great.

1 TB eSata external hard drive is well worth the price.

You'll see a little message pop up that says to link the hard drive to the DVR, press "

WD My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive.

Directv does not transfer the shows and settings you have saved on the internal hard drive to the new drive, so you start with a clean drive

It might be good when you hook it up to do the S.M.A.R.T Test to make sure the hard drive good.

Although I'm thrilled to now have a way to 'get back' many available recording hours for future recordings on my DISH NETWORK VIP722 DVR (by transferring them to the WD MyBook AV External Hard Drive), my only disappointment is with the DISH

VIP722 DVR itself having ONLY a 'USB' output, (which is a slower 'transfer' alternative than if the DISH DVR also had an eSATA output...then these archive 'transfers' from DVR to Hard Drive would be much faster, since the Western Digital MyBook AV DVR Expander 1TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive came equippped with both USB (slower) and eSATA (faster) ports and cables

If you are looking to increase your DVR hard drive space this is your ticket.

This device is good for someone looking to expand their existing hard drive space on their Direct TV DVR

My hard drive saved % on it went from 79% down to 32

The 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity is small compared to the current state of the art in SATA hard drives (3-4 TB).

I should point out that the HR22 and HR24 models will only "see" 2 TB worth of that hard drive, so why not get a 2 TB hard drive

After a minute or less a message is displayed on the TV telling you that the drive will be reformatted and any existing information will be lost – select OK (or Yes – I forget which)

I was browsing Amazon, looking for an external hard drive for my PC, and happened upon this by chance

It should recognize the hard drive and connect to it.

The only thing was the esata cable doesnt work, but by reading the reviews I went ahead and bought an extra one when I ordered the hard drive

Excellent hard drive that is compatible with my Verizon Cable Box

If you wish to see the programs that were still on the internal drive, unplug the external drive and reboot, the system will revert to the internal hard drive

Each 1 hr show takes about 8 minutes to transfer,and by the way Western Digital is the best hard drive out there

I would recommend the drive to anybody with a late model TIVO that takes the SATA interface.

This external hard drive does not function properly with Cablevision.

It took a couple of tries to get the hard drive ready, but as other reviewers noted, I had to power everything down first, hook the hard drive into the DVR, turn the DVR on, wait for it to boot up completely, then turn on the hard drive, go into the DVR menu to enable extra storage, let the DVR format the HD

Your DVR will reboot, format the WD, and recognize the WD as the hard drive to which it records.

the drive is automatically formatted and it works just like the original drive

So far I haven't experienced any of the stuttering or other playback problems that plagued the DVR's internal drive, and the WD DVR Expander's drive is nearly silent

Just make sure you eject your hard drive from your set top box, don't just unplug it

I use a CyberPower UPS from Amazon dedicated to the WD Hard Drive.

I am upgrading my Hopper and needed a device to store the contents of the existing Hopper's hard drive which otherwise would have been lost when the old Hopper was replaced.

Once the set top box is ready to accept the external hard drive, which is at the very end of the entire process, then manually turn on the external drive by pressing the button in the back once.

Another issue with 2 previous brands was the hard drive would freeze (like on a daily basis) and we'd have to reboot the drive.

It appears that TIVO makes sure that whatever you record on this external hard drive will remain inaccessible to any other device (even including other TIVO DVRs).

I rented a new TiVo Roamio from the cable company, but it didn't have a very big hard drive.

and then DVR had to format itself and the external hard drive.

You can play directly from the hard drive

This drive works well with our Scientific Atlanta DVR/cable box from Time Warner Cable.

Very fine product that allows me not to worry about overloading my hard drive.

This drive works well with our Scientific Atlanta DVR/cable box from Time Warner Cable.

In frustration, I plugged in the DVR first, THEN the external drive and all is right with the world

It will come back with a screen that will recognize the external hard drive as you will answer the prompts on the screen that DISH NETWORK provides

My Book lets you extend that hard drive space by about a factor of 8 ... at least in my case

When these drives is when they die they do so suddenly and removing the drive after it's been "married" to your TiVo results in a loss of all your programs

Yes, this device did greatly increase the storage capacity of my TiVo Premiere, but wasn't clear until I went to set it up is that the DVR Expander is permanently married to the TiVo you set it up on and cannot be moved without erasing the hard drive and the TiVo

you may experience the Tivo not starting up completely because the drive and the system weren't ready at the same time - but restarting again resolves it

I have had no playback issues and now have no worries about losing recordings due to a full hard drive.

I asked them if I could use an external hard drive with their Motorola DCT 6416 III DVR.

Note that with DirecTV, when you turn on the DVR box, it first looks at the hard drive that is already turned on, and uses that drive

Finally, a hard drive that is compatible with a Verizon set top box!

By the way, if you unplug this you can revert back to the internal hard drive (assuming it works)

Second: When initially looking at the Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive on Amazon, it offers refurbished and smaller 500 GB (all you will ever need)unit at reduced cost

If you are a Comcast customer be sure you have the right DVR box and live in an area that supports this drive

I also kept checking to see if my particular dvr was on the list of dvr's that this hard drive would work for.

Using the hard drive I can record programs.

There is nothing in the product literature of the DVD or the Hard drive to make this so special

I'm hoping the WD hard drive inside this unit lasts as long as the DVR cable box lasts (or longer!)

I have yet to run into any space issuesand the drive has been flawless since day one.

When I selected it, there were instructions that said the external hard drive was recognized but had to be formatted before use

The only "hiccup" seems to lie with Verizon's Motorala supplied cable box in that to activate the hard drive for storing TV programs requires that it wipe out all existing programs stored on the cable box's internal DVR.

Installation steps: 1 Turn off the 8300HDC and the external hard drive, and remove the power cords

When you install the expander it saves to that instead of the hard drive.

I think that this dvr expander works like a hard drive storage device but it appears that it should be on all the time

The shows that are on your small hard drive do not erase when you install the expander so the transition is very easy

Turned the external hard drive off then on

Western Digital support said the data I gave them shows that the drive is working fine.

I was hesitant about the WD My Book AV because it seemed to be the only external drive compatible with the Premiere.

As it notes there, this drive serves as a replacement so you will not be able to play programs that were recorded on the internal hard drive once you connect the external one

In calling tech support they had me give them the model number and told me this particular drive was not compatible

Since neither WD or Comcast specifically state that this WD Hard Drive will work with the Comcast/Xfinity X2 DVR and it appears to work fine on most of the DVR's listed as compatible, I gave it five stars so my rating will not unfairly lower its rating

There is really nothing wrong woth this hard drive, but I was misled by a TiVo customer service person as to how this works

I could not watch anything that was on the external hard drive

This external hard drive will not work properly with "Mystro".

Description was perfect and hard drive works well.

Have your DVR on like you're watching tv, plug the power for the hard drive in, then plug it into the back of the DVR

I started using this hard drive 2-1/2 years ago as a replacement/expansion hard drive for my DirecTV DVR.

OTOH, it is an expensive little bugger for a 1 TB hard drive

I copied a 750MB folder from my solid-state laptop drive in 3 seconds.

I purchased the Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive at the recommendation of Verizon (my FIOS TV service provider) for the distinct purpose of expanding the cable box DVR storage capacity from its internal 500GBs to a total of 1.5TB.

*Connect the Extender hard drive to your computer using the USB cable that came with it.

Works great, no problems for the past few years that I have owned this hard drive.

where close to being enough, and now with the Expander Hard Drive we have all the shows we have to see but haven't and ave only used 35% of the drive

Not only did the hard drive arrive in ONE DAY but was easy to install and worked perfectly

How easy is that?So far no heat from new hard drive and it's whisper quiet.

My Tivo was continually running out of space before purchasing this hard drive.

I presume this happened when part of the recording was on the internal TIVO hard-drive, and part was on this external disk.

This drive is easy to install and works as easily as the internal driver of your DVR when installed.

It seems to me I will run out of time to watch recorded movies and programs before I run out of hard drive space.

I have had the previous hard drives for years serving as long-term back-up to my photo work

Unless one is willing to accept that loss, it is necessary to complete viewing of ALL programs stored on the internal drive prior to activating the Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive.

Your List will be the previous recorded shows on the DVR hard drive

I have not tried using the WD Expander USB2/eSATA as an external hard drive on my

Be aware the DVR had to be powered on when the hard drive was connected, the DVR would not power on if connected prior.

Then I went looking for a remote hard drive with the Dish specs (

Powered on the hard drive first, then TIVO

I find performance wise you're going to take a bit of a hit, slower than if you were relying on just the hard drive within the DVR (which let's face it doesn't have a big enough hard drive or you wouldn't be looking at this product in the first place)... but the trade off to me is worth it in terms of increased storage

The drive and case themselves are very quiet and sleek.

I am happy to report that the upgrade to the My Book AV DVR hard drive worked fine!NOTES ON THE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:

but I cracked it open (literally because this version at least was not user serviceable) and was able to remove the 500gb HD and put it into an Antec external enclosure and now it works great as a media (audio/video files) drive.

WD makes great hard drives in general.

While the Motorola web site states that my model DVR can support an external drive, Time Warner Cable has this support turned off

One good knock and this plastic bodied drive would quit

The hard drive itself is usually still good and can be used as a backup drive.

Our DVR automatically recognized these hard drives when we plug them in, so we are happy.

My DVR from CableVision (Optimum) comes with a 160-GB hard drive in it

The X1 has an eSATA connection but connecting this WD hard drive does nothing at all.

We are able to record pretty much whatever we want, without worrying about running out of hard drive space.

This drive installed fine to a Tivo HD box after getting a replacement eSATA cable as many other reviewers have mentioned.

purchased Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive, and it arrived on time

I bought this unit specifically to expand my Verizon DVR which came, ridiculously, with a 40GB hard drive

This hard drive was easy to install and worked perfectly with my PVR

and if it didn't work then maybe I could use the hard drive for something else

I purchased this external hard drive and the results were a very pleasant surprise

Also DISH NETWORK claims you can now use a 2TB External Hard Drive to connect to their DVR's but also state it must be a 'single platter'

The hard drives in our Cable boxes have not yet failed

The drive is super quiet so others will not have an issue wherever their DVR is located.

You don't need to format the drive-it's ready to work out of the box

Hope WD gets cracking and fixes this drive so it would work well

I was having second thoughts on buying this hard drive because of all the negative reviews about the supplies cable not working correctly with it but its going on 3

The drive plugged in and works as expected.

Then I researched the 'transfer rate' between eSATA and USB, and after testing it myself, I can say I love the speed of a connection that directly interfaces (without the delays of translation) between the two hard drives

I did have another external drive with another TiVo one in between the series 2 and the present one and it died as did the external drive at the time I suspected electrical since it was not on clean power but that has since been rectified as I use an APC home theater system with a ton of outlets in addition to the whole home surge system.

My old 500gb external hard drive failed, so hoping it was just the hard drive and not the

I love this drive.

A very economical way to expand the storage of your Cable box, and have a usable disk drive if you change to another cable company who's box it won't work with.

It will power up and then ask you if you want to set up the hard drive.

Moved all of my saved items from my dvr to this hard drive.

At least it will work as a USB computer hard drive so not all is lost.

FYI, you cannot transfer programs recorded on the Verizon box to the hard drive, in case you wanted to do that.

However, my new computer has an enormous hard drive making poor old expander redundant

I'm mostly happy with this Western Digital external hard drive

With 94% of my space used up, you can bet I was hoping that this drive would solve all my problems and make TV fun again, rather than a race to watch old content in time to make room for new recordings

I can't tell the difference between watching a show from the internal or external hard drive.

The new hard drive is definately quieter!

After a minute or so, a message will appear saying the drive is ready

Direct TV technically no longer says it supports the use of DVR expanders... unofficially however, there are a variety of ways to hook a hard drive up to your DVR to expand it's storage... do a google search for "DBS talk" and " direct TV HD DVR" to find a VERY helpful forum with friendly, helpful people who taught me a LOT about DVR expanders and the best way to do it

Followed instructions from Tivo site and the hard-drive worked as advertized

The hard drive does work flawlessly so far.

I eventually decided to connect the drive to a computer and wipe the drive clean

the Tivo said it did not recognize the hard drive as a tivo recognized product.

So ... I recommend this drive and would buy another.

I then looked for the best price as well as S&H.After reading many reviews here & elsewhere regarding frequent failure of the included SATA cable, I installed the hard drive

I called Western Digital fo tech support and the guy I talked to was very unhelpful plus he was a little rude and told me I had to call Dish to get the external hard drive to work

The WD My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive provides instant space for saving HD programs.

After calling DISH Network to find out which External Hard Drive would 'play nice' with their VIP722 DVR, I selected the WD MyBook AV DVR Expander 1TB USB 2.0/ eSATA External Hard Drive

So then I started looking at the setting on my DVR and noticed the hard drive was turning off with the DVR box power

I bought this DVR expander to increase my hard drive space on my DVR.

I have a USB 2.0 external hard drive, also from WD, but, like all USB connections, it was a slow process to transfer so much info

The wording on the install screen is confusing and frightening if you don't understand what happens after you install the external hard drive and then unplug it and stop using it.

that contain eSATA output ports since my DVR's are now about 2 years old, but I can only comment about how the Western Digital MyBook AV External Hard Drive works with my DISH NETWORK VIP722 DVR equipment)

I was wanting a hard drive to expand my Moxi DVR that I purchased

I have a bad experience with Seagate drives and just read a survey of reliability for hard drive makers that puts Seagate squarely in the "do not buy" category in my book

Read these reviews, so I expected my current hard drive to disappear when I connected the WD.

I had external drive with 8300HD before and they works, so the problem is not with the PVR.Just tried with another ESATA cable and the same problem occur

Everything from your original hard drive is still there

We needed a slightly different hard drive

They said you are better off buying a Tivo with a bigger hard drive to begin with.

Since I made the changes and those issues went away, the hard drive has worked like a charm and the playback has no issues

I connected this hard drive to my new TIVO to expand it's memory

But you need to understand once the external hard drive is hooked up to your TiVo you cannot unplug the hard drive.

The Hard Drive is fine, However,Comcast doesn't support external Drives for use with the HD-DVRin Central California, so I'm using the unit with another PC based system.

Optimum does not recommend specific eSATA drives, but approves the use of a compatible DVR expander:[

Western Digital is one of the premier names in Hard Drives which is one of the primary reasons for purchasing this brand of external hard drive

A friend who is much more knowledgeable about things like computers and hard drives than I am recently installed this external hard drive on my dvr for me.

I've also made the decision to stop turning off the DVR every night since the HR-24, as I've discovered, has issues (with the WD expander at least) if you keep turning the whole setup off then back on in order to try to expand the life of the electronics involved (it's a real headache getting the DVR to "see" the WD expander basically.. not sure if this would be a problem with the anker/hard drive setup

In the end, the larger drive makes the Tivo more useful, but the bad cable and additional expense was an annoyance.

combined with the seagate skyhawk 4 TB hard drive, amazon asin number B01LOOJ8UI

I don't notice any difference while accessing my DVR besides not having to worry about running out of space (finally)!The drive is extremely quiet

The main thing is when you plug in your external drive to the set top box via eSATA, and you connect the power plug, make sure you turn off the external hard drive by pressing the button in the back for a few seconds

It is amazing how much hard drive space gets sucked up with HD recordings

The thing I would like you to know is if you have recorded stuff on your internal hard drive before you plug the external one EVERYTHING will be deleted on the internal hard drive.

Also, when it craps out, you lose all content, none of the recorded programs stay on the TIVO hard drive.

Better to buy the higher end Tivo roamio with the bigger native hard drive than to expand later when needed.

It came with the hard drive unit, power adapter, SATA and USB cables plus a USB to the smaller camera/camcorder type USB connection

and I hooked up the drive to this unit and 30 seconds later it works great.

After about a week of use, the drive has been flawless

Issues were more a function of Fios and Motorola set top box, not the drive.

When the DVR finished booting up, the message that the external hard drive needed to be formatted; pushed button A and in a couple of minutes message said formatting successful

The hard drive is very quiet and works well

My Dish Hopper receiver was giving the "hard drive failing" notice, so I purchased this item to transfer my recordings to the replacement receiver and it worked great.

I no longer have to clear out the drive 2-3 times per week.

Charter's Scientific Atlanta 8300HD only comes with a 160GB hard drive

I was in panic, no picture, I thought I messed up my internal hard drive

I'll have to wipe the drive clean to free up the space.

It boots up and asks if you want to format the new hard drive, click yes and your done, EZ

From what I understand the WD hard drive is always spinning when its power switch is in the on position.

If you play by the rules this is an awesome drive and works seamlessly!RULES-----#1 Check your STB model number and make sure it is

were both USB and eSATA cables for transfer from the DISH NETWORK DVR and an AC adaptor to power the WD External Hard Drive

I'm planning on getting a TiVo Premier soon and was planning on purchasing one with a larger internal hard drive.

It excels as a media drive or extender for TiVo and PlayStation 3

I am very pleased with this DVR expander hard drive.

Did not register as an external hard-drive/could not access it.

The only quibble I have with the hard drive is that it doesn't include a USB port in the back so that another drive or two can be daisy-chained to it

With the 8300HD on and booted up, plug the power cord into the external hard drive.

The hard drive crashed on it with no way to retrieve the 100+ hrs already recorded on there

When you DVR your shows, it will go to the external hard drive first.

My experience with this hard drive was fantastic

I now have a lap top, and use a 2TB WD external hard drive as my backup

I have other external WD drives i bought as a NAS and for back-up as well as an internal drive that i updated my desktop computer with

This time, the hard drive was recognized and requested that it be formatted.

Lets hope WesterDigital makes a good hard drive that last a few years

We hooked up ours and could not find out why it was not working and found this test and found out the hard drive was bad.

Make sure you have the 7000 series of boxes so it can be compatible with eSATA hard drives.

A message will appear on the screen in 5-10 seconds which says that the hard drive is not formatted and to press "A" if you want to format it

The hard drive is very nice but why don't they state that a sata cable is included in the box.

I spent an evening researching USB external hard drives for the purpose of expanding our DVR storage

I use this hard drive with a dish receiver.

Plug in hard drive, press on button

While this sounds like a liability it also reflects that the Dish Hopper cannot always activate and energy saving on some external hard drives.

It is not like more modern drives that have energy saving features which can spin the drive down when not in use.

The Hard Drive does come with an eSata and a USB cable, though never tested them

I had the DVR replaced, but the replacement had the same problem, so I was confident that the hard drive wasn't bad, the drives used simply weren't up to the demands of simultaneous recording and playback

This hard drive is one of 4 I own that does a good job of delivering back-up services

It's irritating that my TiVO requires a specially set-up external hard drive to increase its storage capacity, but this Western Digital drive was priced right and plugged right in

Otherwise I am totally satified with my hard drive.

There are instructions available how to make it work, but they require opening the TiVo and taking the internal hard drive out, hooking both drives up to your computer, and then configuring the drives through a special software tool

It's irritating that my TiVO requires a specially set-up external hard drive to increase its storage capacity, but this Western Digital drive was priced right and plugged right in

Went to the TIVO service screen and picked the menu to add a Hard drive

Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive

Tried to connect to FIOS DVR motorola qip7232-2, DVR would not recognize external hard drive

it suddenly wouldn't recognize the hard drive.

they were extremely helpful and replaced the drive (they require a CC number but will not charge you if they get the bad drive back within 30 days)

Ordered this hard drive from amazon and received in 2 days

Plug the other end of the cable into the SATA connection on the external hard drive

The other issue with TiVo devices is that they do not tell you what percent of hard drive is available.

The hard drive is very nice but why don't they state that a sata cable is included in the box.

After about 30 seconds, plug the eSata cable into the hard drive and cable box.

Lets hope WesterDigital makes a good hard drive that last a few years

This was my second attempt at buying this model hard drive to expand my TiVo, this hard drive installed easily and is working great so far

This is a fine drive.

I'm hoping to recover (I know, silly me, I should have known better than to expect a hard drive to last longer than 6 months).

Sadly, the drive lacks any documentation whatsoever, support is minimal, and the drive simply doesn't want to work with my Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HDC from Time Warner Cable

This external hard drive is used in my RV with a Dish Tailgater

The hard drive is very quiet and works well

The hard drive is very quiet and works well

External Hard Drive:"This is my 2nd WD external hard drive.

Having computer hard drives that last several years I'm disappointed in this units reliability and would have bought something else, but TiVo limits their customers severely on external storage.

The hard drive also stays on at all times, does not have a sleep (if that was possible)

I researched further, and found Cox customers that had added external hard drives

Plug in the 8300HDC and wait for it to go through the start up program, shortly, the set top box software said that the hard drive was not formatted and to press a button to format the hard drive.

" *A list of hard drives connected to you computer will be displayed

Before buying an external hard drive for my Directv, I did my homework

While I still blame the first failure on the MyDVR Expander, I will chalk up 'bad drives' number two and three on the Tivo and I have bumped up the rating to 4 stars

Other options were swapping out the hard drive yourself or using a third party upgrade service but that can get complicated and will void your

When nothing automatically popped up on the tv screen, I went to "Settings" through the Moxi remote where I found a screen for "external hard drive"

It is incomprehensible to me that many other brands and models of backup hard drives could work, but this PARTICULAR model is the only one recommended

When I initially purchased my TiVo Premiere, I didn't think there was any way I would use up all of the hard drive, so I didn't get the "XL"

The native DVR has only 160 GB of hard drive which equates to about 20 hours of HD recording.

Based on reviews and ratings buying this hard drive was an easy choice and after hooking it

I previously had a regular 1 TB hard drive hooked up that would skip frames, but this drive has no similar problems.

Support call to Tivo confirmed this drive is not compatible.

Follow the instruction from TIVO to add external hard drive and everything just went very smoothly

compare to my experience I mentioned below with the anker dock and seagate skyhawk hard drive which worked on the first try without the pain and heartache and enormous amount of wasted time the WD DVR expander put me through

The drive is useless to me

Returned the hard drive to Western Digital and had a new one in a few days.

This drive is very quiet, and has returned me to the abundant storage times that upgraded TiVo drives offered

so I felt pretty confident before buying this hard drive.

This is a major issue since TiVo stores some of each recording on its internal hard drive and the rest of each recording goes on the DVR expander drive

You do have to call your service provider however to have them set up the external hard drive, cant just plug it in and go.

Allow approximately 15 to 30 seconds for the external hard drive to reach operating speed.

The hard drive hook up to my dvr easily and has worked perfectly sense hooking it up.

Optimum does not recommend specific eSATA drives, but approves the use of a compatible DVR expander:[

The Hard Drive is fine, However,Comcast doesn't support external Drives for use with the HD-DVRin Central California, so I'm using the unit with another PC based system.

Then, go through the steps on your set top box to "expand your storage" with the external hard drive off.

The current wording makes it sound like if you install the external hard drive you will lose it NOW.

Older hard drive but needed to transfer DVR data off of a Dish Network VIP622 receiver and this worked perfectly.

The only issue I have had with it is that after the Set Top Box has been reset (power off/on), I have sometimes had to manually go through the menu system to have the FIOS DVR recongnize the WD external hard drive.

Since I made the changes and those issues went away, the hard drive has worked like a charm and the playback has no issues

As other reviewers have commented, my experience was that eSATA cable included with the Western Digital My DVR Expander 1 TB eSATA External Hard Drive is defective out of the box

Just realize that sometimes you have very little control over the way that your extra hard drive DVR expander works

Connection is easy; You first turn off your DVR; You connect the WD Hard drive to the A/C adaptor and plug it in; you connect the USB cable from the WD External Hard Drive to the DISH NETWORK 'USB' output

I bought these hard drives specifically for my FIOS set top boxes.

Your mileage may vary, hard drives are funny things.

Be aware that a screen will come up when you try to install this external storage hard drive to your HD TiVo.

however the helpful folks at the forum I mentioned above stated that the direct TV units "like" docks a lot more than they do enclosures... the hard drive in a dock is exposed to open air which I'm hoping is a good thing in terms of heat disapprobation (hopefully

I later discovered that my boyfriend had been skipping the daily automatic reboot that allows the Dish DVR to update, and once I'd rebooted the DVR after that, the WD My Book Hard Drive worked perfectly again.

There have been no problems using either hard drive

This external hard drive will not work properly with "Mystro".

So, I am on my 4th DVR in two months, the 4th replacement is missing display segments and an internal hard drive that is iffy

I highly recommend the hard drive expander if you have TIVO.

Also, the drives were loud enough to be bothersome at night (my DVR is in my

Happy with the hard drive, although a bit tricky with Verizon.

After calling DISH Network to find out which External Hard Drive would 'play nice' with their VIP722 DVR, I selected the WD MyBook AV DVR Expander 1TB USB 2.0/ eSATA External Hard Drive

I bought this external hard drive to store some of the programs I have recorded on my Dish Network DVR

Within 30 seconds a menu popped up on the screen asking if I wanted to format the new hard drive.

I then looked for the best price as well as S&H.After reading many reviews here & elsewhere regarding frequent failure of the included SATA cable, I installed the hard drive

They with remain on the internal hard drive of the DVR and all you need to do to get them back is to disconnect the E/HD and reboot to the old I/HD.

A couple issues I have seen with the hard drive is that my DVR just all of sudden did not recognize the external hard drive a few times

Once I "soft" formatted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS it was no problem.

The hard drive does work flawlessly so far.

My old drive failed and this was a perfect replacement.

I purchased this Hard Drive by looking up compatible models on the FIOS site

Just make sure you check that your DV-R is compatible.

I use charter and their dvra have sata 6, so hell yea i can use this and its amazing i no longer have to constantly watch shows just to make room for upcoming recordings

After reading about problems on this unit due to bad E-SATA cables being supplied by WD, I bought another brand from AMAZON, and that fixed the problem

Others have had problems with e sata cable but mine worked fine.

The E-Sata cable works without issue