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Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

MirDreams — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:17:58 EDT

Are there a lot of harddrives one can hook up to your DVR? 'Cause this thing would be incredibly useful!

MirDreams

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

TurboFool — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:38:12 EDT

I was aware that the Explorer 8300 had this ability. Is this any different than any other eSata HDD in that case?

TurboFool

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

jabber — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:55:21 EDT

I rather you not show me your male nipples please.

jabber

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

SuppleMonkey — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:25:20 EDT

It can plug into any DVR that has an eSATA port such as the Series 3 TiVo...

Ha! Just because we Series3 owners have an eSATA port, you don't think it actually WORKS, do you?

Like male nipples, it's turned out to be strictly for show.

SuppleMonkey

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

Azndude51 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:26:53 EDT

I could REALLY use one of these, but if only my DVR had an eSATA port.

Azndude51

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

Jason Chen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:48:36 EDT

Oh look, another post by Jason Chen about...wait a minute.

Jason Chen

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

weatherman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:36:53 EDT

Still no way to get the content off to a PC though, right?

weatherman

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

earthling — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:09:25 EDT

Lots of information here:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=61

The Maxtor drives work well, especially the quickview ones which are supposedly more tolerant of heat and have the firmware tweaked for the type of I/O the PVR does. I have tried several in my SA 8300DVR and all can fast forward, rewind, record multiple channels simultaneously, in other words anything that the internal drive can do (which is also easily upgradeable).

earthling

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

G Maniac — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:04:54 EDT

The product manual says that if you use Time Warner and the Scientific Atlanta 8300 DVR, if the unit is recording to the DVR Xpander, you cannot rewind or fast forward live TV. Quite a drawback IMO. Has any Time Warner subscriber using an SA 8300 series HD-DVR (preferably in Manhattan) bought an eSATA drive and used it successfully? If so, would you recommend it?

G Maniac

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

matto — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:36:07 EDT

@anjow: it isn't. well, aside from probably being more expensive.

Also; as far as I know, the ESATA port on the Tivo Series 3 isn't activated yet, and may never actually be activated.

matto

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

Anjow — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:28:01 EDT

I know virtually nothing about DVRs, but how is this any different to any other external hard drive?

Anjow

Apricorn DVR Xpander Gives a Little More Room for 24

rfayed — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:26:31 EDT

very nice price tag.

rfayed