- Because then you have another piece of (unecessary) equipment taking up space + another outlet for a wall wart + the extra power consumption
- Because there are issues sometimes when their is a power failure, & when the power comes back on, sometimes the DVR ends up rebooting back on the internal drive, INSTEAD of the EHD
Agree w/jd, just go on-line & get a new (bigger) drive, instead of screwing around with some old, little Tivo drive. And, it very easy to swap drives on the HR20 series DVR's anyway - I found 1TB drives on Amazon for only $80 each & put one in each of my HR20-100's.
BTW, if these are leased DVR's, save the old drives. If your HR20 needs to be replaced under the lease prog, you can put the old drive back into the old DVR - then put in the replacement unit.