Service Solution » Instructional http://www.servicesolution.com/blog Tech 4 You Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Adding DVR space http://www.servicesolution.com/blog/2009/02/27/adding-dvr-space/ http://www.servicesolution.com/blog/2009/02/27/adding-dvr-space/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:11:00 +0000 Jeff http://servicesolution.com/blog/2009/02/27/adding-dvr-space/ One of the little mysterious of life is a DVR. Most folks take it for granted. They don’t realize the horsepower in one of these puppies. Think of what they have to do. Now think a bit more, can your computer do that? At its base, A DVR is a computer, usually based on the Linux OS (TiVO, DIRECTV, Dish, Motorola all use Linux). They contain a hard drive that is capable of recording hours and hours of content from your provider so that you can watch at anytime. The problem is, like most things, we need more space! From the time you purchase the unit, you are losing value, because the price of disk drives keep nose diving as new technologies and sizes are released. Most (not all) DVR’s will support a direct drive replacement, this means buying a new larger drive then replacing the internal drive with your new one.

This can be done on a DIRECTV HR20-100. You go out buy a 1.5TB drive and replace the standard 320gb drive, giving you 4 times more space. An easier way (if your DVR has an eSATA port) is to simply buy an external drive of your choice and plug into the eSATA port and restart your DVR. Most will use this new drive as additional space, some, like the DIRECTV models will use it exclusively (meaning your internal storage is NOT used). Contact me if you have any questions or simply comment here and I’ll answer what I can. In the meantime, happy DVR’ing!

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