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Easy Setup
Customers have had an effortless experience setting up the WD 1TB My Book AV DVR Expander External Hard Drive. The drive was easy to connect and install for most users, with some mentioning specific instructions from their service provider's website were helpful.
Tivo Compatibility
Customers have a positive experience using the WD 1TB My Book AV DVR Expander External Hard Drive for expanding storage on their Tivo systems, allowing them to record more content and easily set up the device. However, some customers have reported issues with compatibility with non-eSATA port based DVRs such as Directv's Genie system.
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External Storage Capacity
Customers generally express satisfaction with the large external storage capacity of this WD My Book AV DVR Expander Hard Drive, which has enabled them to record and keep a significant amount of content including movies, shows, music, and sports programs for several years without filling it up. However, some users have reported issues with the drive not being recognized by their devices or experiencing formatting prompts upon initial use.
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Quality
Works great, just plug in and connect, allows for much more dvr storage.
A great product that can be connected to a dvr that has a esat port.
This requires me to unplug and plug back in the tivo bolt.
Unplug the tivo and connect esata cable (included) to the unplugged tivo and unplugged expander.
Price
As an extra hdd it still a little pricey.
Wish there was more of a choice in sizes of storage and or price.
Shipping
Awesome delivery service, just as describedworks like a charm
Item arrived quickly, the price was quite good and very pleased with this product.
Item arrived on time and as advertised.
Packaging/appearance
Unpacked it, hooked it up, rebooted the tivo and it found the wd drive right away, asked me if i wanted to format it and within... Read More
Competitiveness
Just so you know, frontier has been great, it is verizon that is a joke.
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- This product had a total of 1,311 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 21 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I wasnt sure if this was going to work or not on the series 5 as i could not verify compatibility from the literature
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Unplug the tivo and connect esata cable included to the unplugged tivo and unplugged expander
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Connect the power cord to the expander and wait approximately 15 seconds for it to come up to speed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After the expander has come up to speed plug in the tivo
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Tivo will start up and detect the drive and then ask you if you want to connect it
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Online instructions are also available on various tivo sites
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After i ordered the esata cable that one review said was in the box and received it a couple of days later the setup for tivo enhanced storage was simple and it is the only thing that works as an external storage device with a tivo that i have found
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Now days the 1tb capacity is old hat and the simplicity of an ssd with no power adapter would be welcome but its better than nothing
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