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Originally Posted by glennb1
The DIRECTV HD DVR will re-format the drive you connect to it's eSATA port if it wasn't used with the DVR previously.
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I don't think that is correct. It will only format the drive if it is not formatted for DirecTV. I've read that others have moved externals between different DVR's with no issues at all (except of course that programs recorded to the external will only play back on the DVR that recorded them).
I guess there is a rule about posting links to other forums but I found some good instructions elsewhere on how to back up the data.
To answer my other question, it looks like the DVR's are good for a single drive up to 2 TB and arrays are practically unlimited.
Still, if anyone has any actual experience I'd appreciate hearing about it ... and I'll let you know how it works out for me.