can any external drive that support eSATA be used instead? can any external drive that support eSATA be used instead? for example, the Western Digital 2TB eSATA one for about $500.
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I'm told that there are limits as to how big a drive you can hook to a DVR. I found one post that said 500GB is it for the 8300HD; I've got a friend with a different brand of DVR and his instructions say his maxes out at 750GB. I'd want to be sure the 8300HD will support a 2TB before I dropped $500 on it!
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Tivo 3 should support just about any eSATA driveTivo HD will only support the WD DVR Expander out of the box. They can be hacked to use any drive, but it voids the warranty.There is supposedly a file limitation with Tivos that doesn't allow them to read more than about 1.2TB of space. Whether this will be updated is unknown.The SA 8300HD supports regular eSATA drives, but there are some models that just don't work.
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The 8300HD depends on the software on the box. I have heard 8300HDs will support 1TB drives, but that was a while back so I don't know the true limit. It all comes down to what OS it uses.
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If you're asking about using it with a TivoHD, then no. Tivo series 3 can use other eSATA drives in an "unsupported" configuration though. (I don't know about other DVR's)BTW, more info that you ever wanted to know about this is posted in this FAQ: http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=370784
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No, TIVO and other DVRS require specific models. The Western Digital DVR expander (My Book AV with esata) is compatible. See product details and check with your cable company to verify.
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Yes you can. The eSATA end connects to an eSATA port, the other end is a regular SATA plug. This is usually used to connect to an external hard drive for backup or file transfer. It doesn't matter if the drive you connect it to is in the computer or outside the computer. As long as the drive has power you are good to go.
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I have a brand new laptop with an esata port. This enclosure does recognize my external drive via the USB connection, but won't recognize by esata cable. I followed the instructions to use the USB cable for power, and even tried plugging in to a second USB port as suggested, in case one port wasn't supplying enough power.I'm trying to get through to their online support page, but so far no luck. So I'm up in the air for now.
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No, see http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-sata-and-esata/
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This is internal drive, so we assume you already have an adapter that convert internal SATA port to eSATA2. If that's the case it will work.
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i was told from apricorn which used to have the dvr expander and they said that you could get any hard drive that has an esata. I don't know how reliable that would be. I wish i had bought more apricorn's but i guess since the floods in thailand they are not bringing the dvr expander back.
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I myself used it to salvage, format both a 300GB and a 250GB WD disk drives without any problems.Also used it to migrate Windows 7 Pro from a 120GB SSD to a 512GB SSD. Worked without a hitch.Reformatted the 120GB SSD in it afterwards, and now use it as an external disk drive in the unit.Device was tried on both esata and usb3 worked fine on both interfaces.
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I have tested the Hard Disk with eSATA cable and I can confirm to you that the eSATA cable can be used only for Data transfer and will not power the hard disk. It is necessary to power the hard disk via USB cable. Please note that if both cable (eSATA and USB) are connected at the same time, only the eSATA cable will be recognized and interact with the drive, the USB connection in this case will only be used for power. Regards Marcos Silva - Rio de janeiro - Brasil
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External? If you mean esata or USB than no. As for an internal sata SSD, M.2's may cost more and could be suseptable to heat in poorly cooled cases. Depending on your motherboard, using the M.2 interface may disable from one to four sata ports and thus may limit the number of drives that can be installed. Check the motherboard's manual if you're concerned. Used as the boot debice, they're blazingly fast.
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I believe a Western Digital drive would work fine. I bought 2 of them for myself.
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I have 4 Western Digital Red 3TB drives in mine. It has been running non-stop since I bought it. The best investment I've made in computer hardware in long time. Segate and Western digital will both work in it. Not sure if differnt size drives will work though.
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Daisy chaining using eSATA is not possible.Also there is this misconception than eSATA rated at 6 GB/s is faster than USB 3.0 rated at 5GB/s, but it doesn't work that way. In practice, your USB 3.0 will have read/write speeds of 400 MB/s while the eSATA will get 350 MB/s.
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Its not a esata connection so you can't use laptop drive either.. Look up msata.. Thats what you need
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Use a hard drive with a native SATA connection. You cannot use a USB drive in conjunction with a USB/eSATA adapter or cable.Read more: How to Hook Up an External Hard Drive to a DirecTV DVR | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6801076_hook-hard-drive-directv-dvr.html#ixzz2BNQtM6jJ
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Price only! I mean for 1TB you will pay $80 or $90 US dollars, for 2T $150 or $160. For this model external HDD.
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Actually, it did not work for my purpose. My PC fried and I tried to restore files to a new box (USB 3.0 interfaces) from an eSATA external drive. Did not even register. FYI: I then tried a "Newertech" eSATA to USB 3 connector pod (pn NWTADESATA6USB3 -- Barcode: 1309000527) from "Otherworld computing". It worked. I wish you luck
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I believe that only an eSata drive can be added to expand storage, in a RAID 0 configuration. What the limit is on that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but I'd assume at least 1TB. I haven't found any size limit for USB drives either, but since you can only copy to/from or backup/restore using USB drives that makes a huge drive of limited value anyway. I suspect the only way we'll know is to remove the internal drive, attach it to a PC, and see what filesystem the Mediashare uses. Sorry, wish I had a more helpful answer.