Iomega's DVR Expander does 500GB of eSATA storage for SA DVRs

by Paul Miller posted Jun 10th 2008 at 10:27AM

So, your cable company stuck you with one of those boring, no-frills Scientific Atlanta DVR boxes. We fill your pain, but you don't have to just take it lying down. Iomega's new DVR Expander offers up 500GB of extra storage over eSATA for compatible Scientific Atlanta boxen. That's about 300 hours of SD TV, or 60 hours of HD. Using those incredibly intuitive SA menus it shouldn't be too hard to stumble through configuration and get this thing added on to your setup, and there's even an eSATA cable included to start things off on the right foot, but it's not like there's anything going on here other than a fairly standard-issue eSATA drive. Right now the drive is compatible with the 8300 DVR and the 8300HD DVR, but future models from Scientific Atlanta will be compatible as well. DVR Expander should be available this month for about $200.

Filed under: DVRs

Tags: dvr, dvr expander, DvrExpander, esata, iomega, scientific atlanta, ScientificAtlanta

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ramdom_guy @ Jun 10th 2008 12:19PM

Ahem!!! Verizon/Motorola - are you reading this?

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Bradley @ Jun 10th 2008 12:08PM

Something I've always been confused about is what is the difference between this and any other eSATA drive other than marketing?

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Dan Davis @ Jun 11th 2008 10:27AM

Price.

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DavidB @ Jun 10th 2008 12:45PM

I bought a eSATA external drive enclosure and eSATA cable for about $20 a while ago and plugged in a standard IDE 320GB drive I had laying around after upgrading a PC to bigger drives. It plugged in and no configuration required, my 8300HD just all of a sudden had more free space (tripled my capacity versus the included 160GB). This sounds ideal for those who one a one stop solution, and since it's Iomega prices at web merchants will vary all over the place, so this is probably easier than the "roll your own" method I used.

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dnettles @ Jun 10th 2008 9:24PM

I think you mean "feel" your pain.

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KL @ Jun 10th 2008 5:22PM

Other than it being a sweet looking ext. drive, a person can make one pretty easily. However, with the 8300HD receiver, I found it unstable to begin with. Missed recording or recording would be broken into more than one piece. Once I attached my own external drive, it became a lot more unstable with its recordings. Just my $0.02.

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