I want to replace the hard drives in my Apricorn HDDVR expanders.that came with Green WD10EADS's that pixilate and freeze. Will these work? I asked Seagate and they said I need a drive that "does not auto correct" and would run 24/7. He said they don't sell the drive in their DVR expander and they don't know if their expander will work on my Scientific Atlanta DVR. He also said they don't make a drive that is meant to run 24/7 so this add for the SV35 series confuses me. Everything I record is High Def so I want a clean picture and no freezes, pixilating, or lost recordings. Is this the best candidate or would anyone suggest something better that isn't expensive like a SSD. He also said no on Seagate's hybrid. Any direction would be appreciated. I want to replace the hard drives in my Apricorn HDDVR expanders.that came with Green WD10EADS's that pixilate and freeze. Will these work? I asked Seagate and they said I need a drive that... » Read More I want to replace the hard drives in my Apricorn HDDVR expanders.that came with Green WD10EADS's that pixilate and freeze. Will these work? I asked Seagate and they said I need a drive that "does not auto correct" and would run 24/7. He said they don't sell the drive in their DVR expander and they don't know if their expander will work on my Scientific Atlanta DVR. He also said they don't make a drive that is meant to run 24/7 so this add for the SV35 series confuses me. Everything I record is High Def so I want a clean picture and no freezes, pixilating, or lost recordings. Is this the best candidate or would anyone suggest something better that isn't expensive like a SSD. He also said no on Seagate's hybrid. Any direction would be appreciated. « Show Less
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mine run 24/7 in a plex movie server, that is all that I know. Great hard drives, I have used them for years with great success.
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Tivo 3 should support just about any eSATA driveTivo HD will only support the WD DVR Expander out of the box. They can be hacked to use any drive, but it voids the warranty.There is supposedly a file limitation with Tivos that doesn't allow them to read more than about 1.2TB of space. Whether this will be updated is unknown.The SA 8300HD supports regular eSATA drives, but there are some models that just don't work.
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I only have experience with the Western Digital one, and it works fine once you use Acronis to format it. It's up to you. But, keep in mind if you do get the Western Digital one, they send the drive alone, no screws and no cables, just the drive.
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Yes see my listing for the 2TB DVR Expander from Western Digital - but note that it is only compatible with certain DVRs. See my other listings as well.
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I got the backup because it was what was available at the time and I needed space to save my video, music and picture files on my older dying WD drive. I also wanted to expand my video library and now have over 2TB filled. I am looking into getting another 3TB for expansion and will be looking into the differences myself. I did not realize the heat was an issue with my old drive until it started dying. I have an external fan mounted to my Seagate just in case but it seems to run cooler than the others.
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WD Support Site says GREEN is THREE Years. Caviar Black is FIVE years. You might be able to update to the FIVE YEAR Warrantee for a fee...? Usually I've found that bad drives fail early. BUT they ALL fail eventually...:( If you don't do back ups, you WILL cry! Esp.@ 1 TB!
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Seagate bought controlling interest in LaCie in 2012. Since that time these units use Seagate drives. This can be confirmed on Windows by looking at the drive properties... you can see precisely what drive make and model it is. I show what drive model mine has in my product review. I would consider user ratings of this product above any general bias towards particular makes of drives since it either works or it doesn't as a package.
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Tivo 3 should support just about any eSATA drive Tivo HD will only support the WD DVR Expander out of the box. They can be hacked to use any drive, but it voids the warranty. There is supposedly a file limitation with Tivos that doesn't allow them to read more than about 1.2TB of space. Whether this will be updated is unknown. The SA 8300HD supports regular eSATA drives, but there are some models that just don't work.
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You can buy from Apricorn, $10 plus tax & shipping. You can also use a Y splitter USB cable. I had an older one for their EZ GigII that I had forgotten I had bought, so ordered the Y cable--which can also be used for other devices. So I have both, and ended up using the power supply. My problem is that I have a Dell laptop, and Apricorn software did not do an exact clone, leaving out the Dell partition, thus the resultant drive would not boot, missing the boot sector. Ended up using EaseUS, after trying WD Acronis and Partition Wizard, without success. So the Apricorn ended up just being an expensive enclosure.
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The best answer is that my WD unit liked it. If you have a newer model/version - then I can not answer but I know they would not want to mess with something that is working for now. Besides, it is cheep and if it doesn't work your only out a few bucks.
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I only know it works good on my old Samsung drive but will not work on my WD drive, WD requires some kind of support software that is not available.You are on your own with the Seagate.
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Dr. Bozarth, I take all reviews with a grain of salt of course. I also noticed the disparity in the ratings between the two sites. I usually frequent thehomeservershow.com. Many of the forum members are I.T. Professionals, or like myself, a medical professional with a keen interest in technology. The Western Digital Green Drives were the go to drives in the past, but were not ideal for NAS/RAID situations. Many of the members have had good luck with the RED drives, but still recommend a program such as SpinRite or HD Tune Pro to evaluate the drive before putting it into service. I can only recall one situation where a member reported a DOA Red Drive, and many more situations where the Green drives presented problems. The recommended drives for your scenario would be the WD Red drives or the Seagate NAS drives. RAID-1 would be a good solution, and a cloud backup such as CrashPlan on top of that. I have personally purchased two 3TB Red drives and have had no problems with them in the 6-12 months I have owned them. Hope this helps.
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I use my esata drive connected to my dvr from cox communications. Not all esata drives work with a scientific atlanta cable box. I suggest checking for compatibility. Once installed, works perfectly and invisibly until it crashes, which all hard drives will eventually experience, so back it up.
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I'm not sure the question but I'll answer what I know. You can replace the HDD in the DVR if you wish maybe for a larger HDD or for backups. You can program it to record all or specific channels all the time. You can program any or all of the channels to record during certain times of the day or days of the week. You can even program it to record some or all channels only when motion is activated. You can have that motion activation set for different times of the day and different areas of the camera's view can be set for the activation, so as to not record unwanted movement; for example, you can program an outside camera pointed at your driveway to ignore the traffic on the road but start recording once movement is in the driveway. Moreover, any of the before mentioned modes can be intermingled by each camera when you program it yourself at home. As a side note, you can back up the HDD files online or via a computer on the network but it is slower than I would like. For example, if I got an email that someone was in my home, I would wish it could record online at the same time for me but this is not exactly an option. You kind of can but it causes other record issues so it is best to hide the DVR so the intruder cannot find it. (side note: the cameras are not the best quality and have a low field of view AKA viewing angle.)
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Inside the enclosure there are two (2) independent hardisks. RAID 1 redundancy works just as expected, with one drive mirroring the other. It hasn't happened to me yet, but the literature says that in case of a crash. you simply replace the bad drive with a new one and the device will sync itself up, automatically. If the drive is under warranty, you call WD and they'll ship you a replacement drive. The case is designed so that the user can replace the drive easily. So, it's not marketing BS. It works as expected.
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WD says that greens will work and nothing else. I have a feeling that has to do with the lower power consumption. I have heard horror stories about green drives and WD software has said my drives have gone bad, but the drives read and write just fine. I love the raid setup and dont know why anyone else hasn't continued this setup at this price point ( I bought mine used for a little less than $100)
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.