# Adding a Sata hard drive to my DVR? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945 "2010-03-04T05:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/21 "2010-03-04T16:59:26Z")
LOL thanks for the info! Also thanks for the free cap increase when I PMd you. ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/22 "2010-03-04T17:03:00Z")
> [@Gl@re](#): > > Will this new guide be pushed to our DVR’s automatically? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/23 "2010-03-05T02:56:49Z")
> [@RobHimself](#): > > LOL thanks for the info! > > Also thanks for the free cap increase when I PMd you. hey its not everyday someone from [tickets.com](http://tickets.com) is giving away free shit :lol: ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/24 "2010-03-05T06:46:09Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Heh, +1. > > Hell, now that I’ve moved to FIOS I still miss my Dish DVR. The FIOS one is still 1000x better than the TW one, but the Dish DVR is the best on the market. > > As for the OP, no, you can’t copy stuff to the hard drive and move it to your PC. The recordings are encrypted with the DVR’s unique encryption keys so only the DVR that recorded them can play them. > > If you want to DVR stuff and move it to the PC your only option is Tivo. The Dish and TW DVR’s won’t do it and Fios doesn’t even support external drives yet. thats why you need tivo 🙂 i just added a nice WD esata to my tivo, up to over 150 hours of HD storage now. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/25 "2010-03-05T06:55:04Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > thats why you need tivo 🙂 > > i just added a nice WD esata to my tivo, up to over 150 hours of HD storage now. The FIOS on demand is really nice though. Between on demand and newsgroup downloading the limited space on the DVR isn’t really an issue for me. Another 1.5 TB drive shows up today bringing my total server space to over 3TB. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/26 "2010-03-05T07:21:02Z")
haha i hear ya, i find myself not recording as much on tivo since i have the pch. ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/27 "2010-03-10T07:22:34Z")
> [@jabbu](#): > > This will change very shortly. The current guide has been SA’s lock on us for too long. It will be gone soon, the new guide will allow us to do many, many things like dtv’s and beyond. Eh, I still found ODN and MDN to be lacking severely in features, perhaps 3.0 versions fixed that with MAS 5.0… ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/28 "2010-03-10T07:25:24Z")
Whoa… it’s a TW employee vs ex TW employee acronym pissing match. GTFO you humpers. ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/29 "2010-03-10T08:52:00Z")
Humper you know how much I hate TW TV service and I am beginning to hate Roadrunner in amherst, my service was great in Tonanwanda starting to suck ass at new house And just for that the acronym meanings ODN == OCAP Digital Navigator which runs on cable card based SA settops MDN == Mystro Digital Navigator which runs on the older embeded security SA SETTOPS MAS == Mystro Application Server (backend piece to the above two) ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/30 "2010-03-10T11:15:04Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Whoa… it’s a TW employee vs ex TW employee acronym pissing match. GTFO you humpers. lol ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/31 "2010-03-10T12:18:29Z")
> [@evane](#): > > Humper you know how much I hate TW TV service and I am beginning to hate Roadrunner in amherst, my service was great in Tonanwanda starting to suck ass at new house > > And just for that the acronym meanings > ODN == OCAP Digital Navigator which runs on cable card based SA settops > MDN == Mystro Digital Navigator which runs on the older embeded security SA SETTOPS > MAS == Mystro Application Server (backend piece to the above two) lol. you just explained acronym meanings with more acronyms. ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/32 "2010-03-10T18:26:22Z")
I agree, however its a step in the right direction, going in house vs SA’s 80’s guide… The new guide still lacks features, but is a huge improvement over sara, and more improvements will come. ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945/33 "2010-03-11T06:49:38Z")
☹ It never ends, I live in acronym soup… ---------- Post added at 09:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:48 AM ---------- Very true, TW just has a propensity to fuck shit up. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/adding-a-sata-hard-drive-to-my-dvr/79945.md?page=1)