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Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDBABT0010HBK-NESN | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $127.60
Buy New: $119.00
as of 9/9/2010 23:10 EDT details
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 166
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
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Number Of Items: 1
Hard Drive Size: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 1.9 x 6.5
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Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: WDBABT0010HBK-NESN
Model: WDBABT0010HBK-NESN
UPC: 718037762906
EAN: 0718037762906
ASIN: B003MVZ60S
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| Features:
| • | High-capacity DVR expander | | • | A convenient storage companion for your camcorder | | • | AV-optimized for smooth playback on your TV | | • | Small enough to fit in your entertainment center | | • | USB and eSATA interfaces for maximum flexibility |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
My Book AV 1TB External Hard Drive
Expand your DVR storage so you can record more of your favorite TV shows. Or, transfer and store videos from your compatible camcorder to free up space for more recording. Connect the drive to a game console, Blu-ray Disc player or media player, like one from the WD TV family, to smoothly stream video to your big screen TV. It?s the perfect solution for your video storage and playback needs.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Wow! Wow! Wow! July 2, 2010
Raisemore (San Rafael, CA United States)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have a recent Dell Windows 7 laptop with an eSATA port and I wondered whether this DVR extender would also be usable as an external backup drive. External eSata drives are not widely available at the moment and the 6x speed difference vs. USB 2.0 is compelling. The answer is yes. I turned off the laptop, plugged in the drive via the supplied eSata cable, turned it on, then turned on the laptop. The drive was instantly recognized as My Book AV (E:) with 1TB of space. I copied a 750MB folder from my solid-state laptop drive in 3 seconds. I love this drive. FOLLOW UP: I wanted to use this drive as a backup drive for Windows 7 backup. Once I "soft" formatted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS it was no problem. I backed up 170GB from my solid-state laptop drive in 40 minutes!
Works Great, Looks Great August 9, 2010
Timothy G. Blum (Amherst, NY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
We have had a TiVo Premiere XL for about 2 months and got this pretty quickly as an accessory along with the wireless-n adapter. This 1TB HD works great and combined with the 1TB internal drive on the Premiere XL I now get 301 HD hrs/up to 2637 SD hrs (I have the SD recording quality set on highest so I actually get 447 sd hrs capacity). Installation was easy as I was used to hooking one of these external HDs up to the cable DVRs (we still haven't gotten rid of them all yet-still waiting for the "tuning adapter" just for this TiVo). The directions are on the TiVo website, but you basically unplug the TiVo, plug the HD eSATA into the TiVo, then plug in the HD and wait for it to spin up (about 20 secs), then plug the TiVo back in and the on-screen menus will take care of the rest after booting back up. No problems whatsoever with the exception of one time watching a show where there was a hiccup in the recording-not sure whether the recording was on the TiVo HD or the external HD-and rewinding to get it to play again sent the TiVo to do a reset. Only has happened once in 2 months. Very quiet, virtually no HD noise (you can hear spinning if you stick your ear up to it). Looks pretty nice with the single pin dot although you can just as easily hide it behind components if you want.
I was a little hesitant because I have had mixed success with WD externals. One, a 2GB My Book Studio II works great as my main backup with firewire on a Windows 7 x64 PC. Another, an older WD My Book 500gb had lots of issues with the controller card inside and eventually it failed-but I cracked it open (literally because this version at least was not user serviceable) and was able to remove the 500gb HD and put it into an Antec external enclosure and now it works great as a media (audio/video files) drive.
A perfect solution for my TiVo Premiere. July 29, 2010
W. Cruz (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had this external drive for over a week. I bought it so that I could increase the recording capacity on my TiVo Premiere DVR. I'm am very please with it. My Tivo Premiere had a recording capacity of 46 hours in HD, but since I've connected this external drive I now have a recording capacity of 191 hours in High Definition (HD)
It is very quiet and I love the shiny look that it has. It's a no brainer to hook it up. I will be buying another for my other Tivo unit.
30 seconds later mission accomplished! July 14, 2010
wiscy
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I received my 1TB WD My Book AV Expander today. Here's how it went down:
Unpack, plug into back of DVR with included eSATA cable, plug WD HDD into wall outlet, turn on DVR and TV. See prompt on TV about new attached storage. Look for and find remote that kids misplaced. Then Press A on remote to format. Wait 30 seconds. Now when I press List it shows 5% Full (used to be 40%). It didn't even interrupt the current recording. No more taping over my World Cup matches. How easy is that?
So far no heat from new hard drive and it's whisper quiet. Drive also comes with a USB cable (not needed for this project as the Scientifc Atlanta 8300HD supports eSATA only for adding storage.) From WD's website this drive is on the list of supported drives for Time Warner SA8300HD but it was still a relief to see it immediately recognized.
Excellent portable 1 TB hard drive unit July 21, 2010
SMXSteve (Seattle)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had absolutely no problems when I received this device. It came with the hard drive unit, power adapter, SATA and USB cables plus a USB to the smaller camera/camcorder type USB connection. The device is about the size of a very thick but small paperback. Unpacking was a snap.
First I plugged it into power then connected it to my computer via USB. In no time at all it was recognized by both a Windows 7 and an XP computer. I immediately copied about 700 Gigabytes of video to the device. I didn't time it exactly because I did it in chunks but it took about ten hours to copy the videos. Keep in mind that is 700 Gigabytes which is equivalent to roughly 100 movies/videos. I expected it to actually be a bit longer.
The biggest test was whether it would work with my video player as it wasn't listed. I have the brite-View CinemaTube which I currently don't recommend. However, it has a USB connection. I hooked up the My Book AV DVR Expander and it worked like it was meant to be!
The device is very quiet, in fact, it is currently less then a foot from my ear and I don't notice it. It also has a tiny little light in front which is noticeable so that you can see that it is on but not so much to be distracting.
There are only a few complaints I have, if you want to call them that. One is a remote or a way to use a universal remote to turn it on or off since it will be the only device I would have to get up and turn on/off (not that I am lazy but...). The on/off switch is in back but easy to use. Also, there is nothing on the website except a copy of the manual in PDF, of course. Not really important since I had no problems but I have no idea what support will be like if I need it. For portability a case would have been nice too.
Since none of my computers have eSATA (external connections) I haven't tried it. But all of my computers have USB and it works fine. It could also serve as a backup device.
I am very happy with this device. 1 TB of video (or music too) that I can easily take with me and plug into any computer or most players.
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