Looking to get a big external drive for the HR34 - help/advice please

[Muckrak3r]

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. They can install an internal hard drive or external,& back up all of the information on your existing hard drive & transfer it over to the new one.

$400?! LOL.

WOW it took me months just to fill up the hard drive on my HR24

See, that's what I don't understand. We have only had the DVR for 3 months or so. I don't know how to determine how many hours of recordings we have on there. But it doesn't seem like too terribly much.

[jcrandall]

I highly recomend the WD20EURS drive, made for AV receivers. Previously the WD20EVDS (own two of them) was it, but the EURS replaced the EVDS.

WD AV-GP

2TB is the limit the DirecTV software supports at this time. People have tried larger with no success.

Antec makes an e-sata enclosure that is very reliable and has a cooling fan:

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/prod...d=NzA0MjIxJjg0

[Muckrak3r]

Another concern that I have - is buying a 2Tb hard drive, and then D* updating firmware or whatever and then 3Tb or larger drives become compatible.

Sidebar - it also makes ZERO sense to have the external drive kill off the internal drive. On my Dish ViP722 - the external hard drive was usable as storage alongside the internal hard drive. So we would put entire tv series that we didn't have time for, or movies etc on the external drive to keep the internal drive freed up for our day-to-day viewing.

Does anybody know if D* has any plans to change it so we can use larger external drives?

[Jimbo]

Another concern that I have - is buying a 2Tb hard drive, and then D* updating firmware or whatever and then 3Tb or larger drives become compatible.

Sidebar - it also makes ZERO sense to have the external drive kill off the internal drive. On my Dish ViP722 - the external hard drive was usable as storage alongside the internal hard drive. So we would put entire tv series that we didn't have time for, or movies etc on the external drive to keep the internal drive freed up for our day-to-day viewing.

Does anybody know if D* has any plans to change it so we can use larger external drives?

We've all been discussing that for years .... so far, no word from D* about it.

Btw, 13 episodes or so shouldn't take up much room on the 1TB HD, even if your recording 10 series, it shouldn't be all that much.

[jcrandall]

2TB is around 400 hours HD.

No word on larger HDD support, and I would no expect it anytime soon.

As for the internal drive integrated with external, all pleas to Directv have produced no results, I wouldn't expect it anytime soon either.

[inazsully]

It sure seems like "D" could simplify things if they would just use a USB port for connecting EHD's. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like most of the electronic equipment I see utilize a USB connection.