esata enabled out of the box?

[MichaelK]

anyone from TiVo care to comment on if the eSata port is alive? And if it is- does it have to be an 'offical' drive or can any eSATA drive be used now?

and still the TB limit?

[mattack]

I certainly have no official answer, but I would definitely expect it to be an 'official' drive requirement, since that makes it much easier to qualify that it works.

[matt@thehickmans]

I suspect that Tivo and Western Digital have parted ways - possibly because of the poor (actual) MTBF of WD's drives. So if they have parted, I applaud the decision.

The whole 'official' drive thing has always seemed fishy to me because only one vendor's drives ever qualified. That simply smells bad.

[backstr]

The 1TB WD expander appears to be back in stock at TiVo.com and Amazon.