Western Digital adds 140-600 hours to TiVo, DVRs
April 22nd, 2009, 8:00 pm · 3 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Just a quick note: Western Digital in Lake Forest added a 1-terabyte drive to its line of “My DVR Expander” products. It’s an external hard drive that plugs in to a TiVo or other compatible digital video recorder and immediately adds room for up to 140 more hours of high-definition TV shows and movies. That also translates to about 600 more hours of standard definition. Nice!
The latest model works with TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD DVRs, using an eSATA connection. Price: $199.99 and available at shopwd.com.
Unfortunately, My Expander doesn’t work with every brand of DVR, especially if the DVR is from the cable company. But according to Western Digital, it’s “been tested for compatibility with Scientific Atlanta 8300 Series, and has been TiVo verified compatible with TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs.”
An older 500-gigabyte model with USB connections is also available. That one appears to work with DISH Network’s ViP Series HD DVRs, according to the company.
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Nice! I’m running out of space after recording just about all of the Discovery Channel shows and all seasons of 24. I’ll look into the upgrades!
My Cox DVR runs all the time and gets really HOT unless the cabinet is left open and even then it is hot. Its HD is too small as well. Is there a drive to expand the COX DVR?
Yes, it’s hot because the hard drive is spinning like mad and needs proper ventilation. Mine — from Time Warner — is the same. You may be out of luck in trying to find an expansion kit from Cox, which appears to block the eSATA port. I’ve got a request into Cox to answer your questions. I’ll post the response here when I get it.