From what I understand external hard drives will work on MDN boxes but not ODN.
If you do a google search on 'external Hard drive TWC DVR', you will get a slew of postings from 2007 -2009 saying it is available, but unsupported. Then nobody is saying so after early 2010. This is consistent with my first posting. TWC hard disabled the e-sata port back in June, 2010 at the same time they killed the favorites list. Steve, if you have evidence to counter that, please post it.
After 6 frustrating months, I got a TIVO.
Hi All,
I currently have two (2) SA 8300HD cable boxes from Time Warner Cable. During a recent TWC service call to my house, I complained to the technicians about some HD channels being intermittently and independently unavailable on each cable box. At that point, they suggested upgrading to a more recent cable box, at which point I told them that I use the 8300HD because I utilize eSATA hard drives on both cable boxes band that this was a crucial feature for me. The technicians then suggested upgrading to the Cisco 8642 or 8640 cable boxes, which they claimed worked with eSATA hard drives.
I am writing to find out what this group thinks about this suggestion.