BruceS on August 22, 2007 10:01 AM

Check out the dbstalk.com forum.

Other people seem to have gotten it to work.

NOTE: Unlike the Tivo based HR10-250 and S3, which use an attached esata drive in addition to the internal drive, the HR20 appears to switch to just the external drive when one is added.

vegaspl on November 17, 2007 12:58 PM

Currently frustrated with many attempts to upgrade my Directv DVR's.  Seems the HR20-100's do not have the ESatA port enabled.  The HR21-700 recognizes  the External Drive but does not operate properly.  Freezeups and the "Do you want to delete now" message showing immediately when attempting to play back any recordings. Live programs freeze after a few minutes.  IOW..totally useless.

On the other hand, the HR20-700 works perfectly with the External Upgrade

Please explain "Tivo based HR10-250 and S3, which use an attached esata drive in addition to the internal drive"   How do I do??

surfingman1 on May 12, 2008 2:43 AM

I plugged in a Cavalry CAXE3701T0 3.5" External Hard Drive 7200RPM 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA. Works great. found it on Amazon.

I have a
HR21-700.

BruceS on August 19, 2008 11:08 AM

vegaspl said:  Please explain "Tivo based HR10-250 and S3, which use an attached esata drive in addition to the internal drive"   How do I do??

What I mean is that when you use an esata drive with a tivo based DVR, you get the combined space of both the internal and external drive.

 When you attach an esata drive to the HR20 or HR21, only the disk space on the esata drive is used.  As far as using an esata drive with thr HR20 or HR21, check out dbstalk.com.