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Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1S5000N

Western Digital My DVR Expander 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1S5000N
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Product Description

Instantly add up to 60 hours of high-definition TV or up to 300 hours of standard-definition TV to your DISH Network ViP series HD DVR. You'll have plenty of room to save your programs longer and never miss your favorite shows.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #4888 in Consumer Electronics
  • Brand: Western Digital
  • Model: WDH1S5000N
  • Platform: Windows
  • Format: CD
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: 5.90" h x 7.10" w x 8.60" l, 3.30 pounds
  • Memory: 128000MB
  • Hard Disk: 500GB
  • Processors: 1
  • Native resolution: 640x480
  • Display size: 669.2913385827

Features

  • Sold Individually
  • Dimensions - Height 6.5 x Depth 5.4 x Width 2.1 (166x137x54mm)
  • Weight - 2.5 pounds (1.15 kg)

Customer Reviews

Dish DVR Expansion5
Simple installation, just connect to the DVR with the supplied USB cable, plug it in and follow the on-screen directions. It's easy to move recordings back and forth or to view directly from the hard drive. You can continue to watch TV while the recordings are being transferred. A neat thing is that you can use the external drive with any other Dish DVR you may have. You can record on your TV, connect the drive to the kids DVR and they can watch on their TV.

Works fine with Dish Network DVR5
Got this to increase the storage of a Dish network DVR. Plugged in this hard drive into the DVR, activated the USB port through Dish and everything worked smoothly. Since then I have used this drive with no problems to archive tv shows from the DVR and watch them later. Now if only the Dish network user interface to the hard drive was better....

Does what it is supposed to do silently5
This works the way it should. When I plugged it in and attached the USB cable to my Dish 722 DVR receiver, the drive was instantly recognized. I selected the option to format it to work with the dish receiver and that was it. I am now able to archive movies to this drive, watch movies directly from the drive or, if I wish, move them back to the Dish DVR.
Once it is formatted to work with the Dish DVR it won't work with a computer, but that's not a problem.
It's silly not have one of these, isn't it?