External Expansion Ports
Certain versions of the Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 8300 (the 8300 HD, 8300 MR, and 8300 HD-MR) DVRs are compatible with external SATA drives so that you can expand the amount of recordable hours of programming that can be stored. At this time there are SATA drives from Apricorn, Maxtor and Seagate that are only compatible with boxes running the SARA software. Cable companies have a choice between running their 8300 DVR boxes on SARA or Passport software. Several providers currently support external SATA drives, including Time Warner, Comcast, Cablevision, Rogers and Charter. Seagate's consumer line of external SATA (eSATA) drives are supported, but its flagship Freeagent Pro drives are not compatible. Western Digital offers My DVR Expander, which is similar to their My Book series of external hard storage, but specifically tested to be compatible with the Explorer 8300 series of DVRs (8300, 8300 HD, 8300 MR, and 8300 HD-MR). Many external eSATA enclosures will work with the Explorer 8300 series of DVRs with generic hard drives besides those specifically certified to do so.
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