How to expand dvr storage help

[bjballar41]

I am looking to expand my dvr storage and the cable company said to plug it into the esata port. i have an older western digital my book(has alot of pics on it) but the hook up is mini usb to usb and is probably 2.0 not 3.0. is there a way to use my current one till i upgrade to another one. or one that has an esata port on the actual storage unit. what exactly my best option?

 

[voyagerfan99]

Buy this Rosewell enclosure and a NAS drive. (WD Red Drive - I'd get a 1 or 2 TB drive).

http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RX-3...7729&sr=1-1&keywords=rosewill+esata+enclosure

 

[bjballar41]

are there cheaper alternatives to the actual storage?

or could i still use it as an actual storage for something else also?

 

[voyagerfan99]

I don't know what format the DVR formats the drive as, so I would not know if you can use it apart from the DVR.

 

[bjballar41]

how do i actually tell that? im sure its some kind of info on the dvr

 

[Cromewell]

Who is your cable provider? Might be able to look up what format they use. It's probably FAT but it could be anything.

 

[bjballar41]

Its ellijay telephone company they are a small business only in like three counties around us

 

[Cromewell]

Looks like they use essentially off the shelf Motorola parts.
If you have this series, http://www.etcnow.com/ESupport/documents/DCT6400 Data Sheet.pdf, you should be ok to use it. I can't find anything about file format, but as I posted earlier it's highly likely that FAT will work. Seems most utilities disable the front ports but using the rear eSATA should be fine.

 

[bjballar41]

My cousin works tech support for them I'll ask ask him and see if he knows. He just said get a portable and get usb to esata.adaptor