In any event, the price was good, the warranty from the seller is 1-year replacement, and, as of this writing, 30 days since installing the hard drive, everything is working well

When I realized my hard drive was failing, I called Tivo and they offered to replace my Romeo with a rebuilt one for $278.00 and by installing this hard drive, I saved $200.00.

After installing the hard drive and powering on the TiVo Roamio, the replacement hard drive made quite a bit of noise.

This has been a very frustrating drive so far.

Place the replacement hard drive into the unit and tighten the screws previously removed

WD20 EVDS) in my home server since 2009 without an issue, ever!Bottom line: if you are looking for cheap storage with minimal power consumption and great reliability, these drives are ideal.

I ordered this drive based on recommendations to upgrade a failing drive in my TiVo Premiere XL.

Using CrystalDiskInfo, I accessed the hard drive’s SMART data.

Excellent drive.

Disconnect the power and data cable from the hard drive and remove the hard drive

The hard drive I received was manufactured in May 2014, over two years ago, and I was concerned a used drive had been shipped.

I upgraded the hard drive in a family member's Series 3 Tivo.

The drive is garbage

Drive seemed to work well when it arrived undamaged.

Next, remove the rails from the hard drive using the T10 screwdriver

Anyway, it took about 7 minutes to install this hard drive in a THR22 TiVo DVR.

The picture was freezing briefly a few times per day and the drive made annoying noises, even when the unit was in standby

I am mechanically challenged, and had no difficulty sliding the drive into place

Replaced the failed drive and works perfectly.

so it's headed for the TIVO.To anyone considering these inexpensive but otherwise large multi-terrabyte drives, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to invest the several hours it will take to put it through the Exrended test

More research, and it seems that these drives have issues with many enclosures

This hard drive also came shipped with the stand by bit set, meaning that you had to hook it to a PC and set the bit to get it to even spin

Replaced the failed drive and works perfectly.

I bought this as a replacement hard drive for my TiVo HD after my TiVo was stuck on the "Powering Up" screen, suggesting a likely hard drive failure.

If you are looking for low power, large capacity drives that work with Windows Home Server v1, then I recommend these drives

Had some problems getting the drives here in working order

I did not want to install a used or refurbished hard drive.

I’m pleased with the hard drive and the seller, TNTelectron

The DVR specced an eSata AV compatible drive.

Curiously, even Western Digital's webpage states "All Western Digital Serial ATA hard drives come with PM2 (power management) disabled

Attach the power and data cable to the replacement hard drive

Not all hard drives work with security DVR's.

This may be a great drive, but there is a technical "glitch" with it

My drive went bad and WD covered it under warranty.

What can I say, it's a hard drive.

Using CrystalDiskInfo, I accessed the hard drive’s SMART data.

hard drive to increase the storage capacity of a TiVo Roamio OTA.I’ve read in other reviews, some buyers are receiving used or refurbished hard drives.

Almost three years ago (2/27/2015) I ordered a WD AV-GP 2 TB AV Video Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD20EURS but received the WD20EURX (the drive I am reviewing)

Will update in the future if the drive has any issues.

They actually replaced my bad drive with another bad drive.

This WD 2TB GP-AV Hard Drive is very quiet and you can't even hear it while in use

MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive WD20EURX

The drive is very quiet and there's less fan noise than before with the stock Seagate ST3500414CS drive

After making this change (took a little figure out how to do this, and isn't something I suggest someone not comfortable with tinkering attempt) the drive now spins at power up and works great in my TiVo

The drive came responsibly packed in a dense drive-sized air pack.

I'm pleased as can be with the 2TB hard drive.

The drive is now completely silent and the picture has stopped freezing.

(The Amazon page says the seller provides a warranty without giving details.)I could find only the barest of information regarding the drive on the WD site

Apparently a small subset of these hard drives have PUIS enabled for no good reason.

Never saw a new drive out of the package with fingerprints and smudges all over it before.

After watching a Youtube video on how to replace the hard drive in a Tivo Roamio, I ordered this drive.

In my case the drive worked right out of the box, no issues with any factory settings

My Tivo would keep jumping to the restart screen while watching live TV (common symptom of a bad hard drive)

Great drive, used it to upgrade my Tivo Premier.

T10 Torx screwdriver for the hard drive and the hard drive railsFlat head screwdriver to gently pry the cover away from the base to gain accessInstalling the drive was actually very easy

The Drive is completely silent and cool

Great price on a large, and thankfully quiet, hard drive

Would recommend this drive for anyone looking to upgrade the storage in their DVR.

As advertised, great 2014 drives, verified new

I would recommend this case along with the WD 2TB AV-GP drive if you want to expand your DVR storage.

Somehow it under-reports it's size to hard drive duplicators

Once the cover is off, the hard drive is visible

Such an easy drive to install as a replacement\upgrade for an existing Tivo Roamio.

It is also possible to extract the files from your previous Tivo hard drive and transfer them to the new hard drive, but that's a whole other topic that requires an outside computer.

Fast shipping and works great as a Tivo drive!

The drive has been working quietly for almost 30 days and no issues.

Now, attach the rails to the replacement hard drive

Used to internally expand memory in my TiVo after the failure of too many external hard drives

The first upgrade was over 6 months ago, due to the original WD Green Drive giving SMART 7 errors, after about 4 years of being in service.

I was new to TiVO but being able to put in a larger hard drive was one of the big selling points for me

Was a bit surprised at the seeming lack of padding, but the drive seems okay, no problems so far.

Other drives are slow and have hesitation during playback but not this setup.

The hard drive was miss presented

The drive passed the quick test but failed the extended test "Too Many Errors" after some 12 hours into the test

In my case the drive worked right out of the box, no issues with any factory settings

Below are some comments regarding installing the Western Digital WD AV-GP 2TB hard drive into the TiVo Roamio OTA.TiVo has apparently made some changes over time.

I bought the Western Digital 2 TB WD AV-GP SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive WD20EURX