Comments on: TiVo-branded External Hard Drive Within 8 Weeks

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:56:07 +0000

I’ve heard from two different unofficial sources that both indicate TiVo-ready drives will be sold by hard drive manufacturers, but there may not be TiVo-branded units. If so, I assume any eSATA drive will work as it does now (via kickstart on S3, or formatting on THD).

By: Ashu

Ashu — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:36:20 +0000

Goodie!

I’ve been on another planet and not particularly congizant of changes ont he tech/DVR front, but this would be a welcome front.

I’m glad I held off on the eSATA hack ‘upgrade’ … I look froward to it being propah-ly supported so I can add space, to coincide with my ability to watch mroe TV

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:34:33 +0000

Populating or polluting store shelves?

How do you guys afford 750’s?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:11:35 +0000

Does anyone know if the kickstart backdoor formats an eSATA drive to look like it’s TiVo “branded”? I’m wondering when the the eSATA support becomes official, whether the hacked drives will continue to work.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:33:16 +0000

apparently there is a really difficult way to do it if the internal HDD has been upgraded, but it is way beyond me. With the 750 I have inside, I’d really like to add another 750 outside.

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:17:29 +0000

Davis – It is still the case today. Who knows if that will change when TiVo actually releases the official support. Right now *all* eSATA support is a hack.

By: Davis Freeberg

Davis Freeberg — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:09:24 +0000

When the eSATA hack came out, I thought I read somewhere that you couldn’t use an eSATA if you upgraded your internal drive, any idea of this is still the case?

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:18:30 +0000

I wonder what’s going to happen to folks using external drives on kickstart with Series3 units when the software update comes. Will they lose their recorded shows?