WD My Library drives aimed at DVR owners

Western Digital appears to be cozying up to the consumer side of the DVR market with its latest offering, the My Library Video Edition, a version of its popular My Book hard drive which is designed specifically for use with Scientific Atlanta 8300-series DVRs (though the company claims it will be adding manufacturers and models which utilize eSATA). What's interesting to note is that WD has been making OEM drives for use with DVRs for a while, but this is the first time they've offered models aimed at the retail DVR storage market, and while the OEM drives feature technology designed to withstand constant, round-the-clock use, these new models appear to be missing those components. Certainly food for thought if you were planning on putting one of these through its paces.

[BiG� @ Jun 28th 2007 11:04PM]

Perfect for my Series 3 TiVo ;-)

[Irfan @ Jun 28th 2007 11:31PM]

the 8300HD accepts a lot of different eSATA drives. just put one in an external enclosure and you're set.

[BWX @ Jun 29th 2007 1:53AM]

Well a lot of them do not work or only partially work. I have one that works great, but others have assorted problems.

Forum thread about it--
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=516559&page=1&pp=60


Database of 8300 users and assorted drives/enclosures and their functionality
http://baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/xnappo/main

Mine in under name "BWX" -I had great luck with my setup.

[x20mar @ Jun 29th 2007 2:08AM]

I saw this yesterday, for people in the UK it should be compatible with the virgin media V+ box

[Shahryar Rizvi @ Jun 29th 2007 11:32AM]

Nice! My SA8300's gotta be returned to Comcast because its acting up when I watch recordings, but I wanted to pull some content out of it to keep and I'd like to preserve the HD quality wherever possible. This will allow me to do that?