Tivo Expander Drive $140 delivered

kirt on 11/03/2011 - 17:35 shop.mytivo.com.au (498 clicks)

"Now you can add a whopping 1TB of additional space onto your TiVo with the TiVo Hard Drive Expander by Western Digital"

The thing is, should you be spending more on your Tivo when they have question marks over their future…

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davo_4 on 11/03/2011 - 17:55

Can it be used on other PVR's?
cliener on 11/03/2011 - 18:51

For the price, it's not a bad way to add storage space. CNET review: http://www.cnet.com.au/western-digital-my-dvr-expander-33929…

With a little work, you can upgrade the internal hard drive for much less than this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/150966/add_a_second_hard_driv…
imp on 11/03/2011 - 20:23

Took me about 5 mins to upgrade the internal drive(+ time for the tivo to reboot and update).
[Deactivated] on 11/03/2011 - 23:42

Not a bad deal. However, if you can hold off a month or two, there's generally somewhere that will have them for under $100 when TiVo AU do special distributor volume pricing. Last big sale was mid-Dec10 (ref http://twitpic.com/3gbby7 http://twitpic.com/3gbbxx) and prior to that was Jul10.
asa79 on 12/03/2011 - 00:42

Can you use any usb hard drive on tivo, what makes this so special?
- cliener on 12/03/2011 - 10:11
  
  The connector on this one is eSATA - much faster.
wfdTamar on 12/03/2011 - 10:28

Your only option for extra space on the Tivo is this drive or put your own drive inside (you can't use any old USB drive). One of the drawbacks to a big drive in the Tivo is it takes ages to scroll through the list of contents. Unlike a Topfield you can't put stuff in folders (say Comedies or Movies).