what's the latest with mydvr expander usability?

I just bought a DVR Expander this past weekend to use with my TiVo HD, and it is working just fine. I checked the system information page and it showed the correct number of hours of recording space. Hopefully you figure out what is going on soon!

 

I am one of those who was forced to divorce the My DVR Expander from its attached TiVoHD after the 9.4 update. Once divorced, the TiVoHD began working properly again.

Before going on a week's vacation, I decided to be bold and reattach the My DVR Expander. To be on the safe side, I scheduled redundant recordings on my Series 2 model (which is my bedroom TiVo) wherever I could.

I came back a couple of days ago, and so far every recording made since I left town has played back fine.

 

WD replaced mine and the new one has been running fine for over 3 weeks now. I did notice the new one has a different model number than the old one.

 

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Same here and been over a month for me. However an issue I still have is that when fast forwarding the picture goes black and I can't see the show. It keeps fast forwarding and I have to guess when to press play. Very annoying and doesn't happen on my other S3 that has a different external hard drive.

 

I just had my expander replaced by WD as well. It had been running fine on 9.4 and then the drive died. The new one has been working fine.

 

My expander is working just fine, after the 9.4 update. I had a couple of weird things happen, but they were related to the fact that the expander wasn't on a UPS, while the TIVO was (I've since fixed this).

 

it seems for whatever reason 9.4 beats on external hard drives harder then previous versions.

So drives that might have been at the cusp get pushed over the edge with 9.4

No idea what they might have done to make the external drive work harder.

 

It could also be that particular channel is switching formats. I have noticed TNT-HD doing this a lot lately during commercials (switching to 720p during some of the commercials). If you run in native mode your TV probably doesn't switch to that format in time to see anything but black.