Directv Genie DVR Recordings Storage Upgrade Step by Step with 4TB Hard Drive from Best Buy

How to upgrade step by step your DirecTV genie DVR for more recoding storage space. Also a test of what happens when you remove the external drive when in operation. How to switch between the two so you can still watch your old recordings when needed. Best Buy sale ended but you can get the same 4 TB drive off eBay and you really only need a bare drive with an external eSATA case to get it working.

Things to note:
Upgrade was done on a HR54-200 Directv DVR genie but many other models work the same if they have an eSATA port on the back. If you do not have an external hard drive case laying around that supports eSATA you will need to get one ($25). For $115 you should be able to expand your capacity with 3X more space. I used a 4TB drive, you can use larger does not matter. HR54 Genie supports up to 12 TB but that's a lot of recordings :)

Before you start read the following:

You can not have your old and new recordings at the same time. Whatever is on the old internal drive can not be accessed while the new drive is connected. After you upgrade your show series will need to be added again. This could be considering a big inconvenience but well worth it in the end. If you feel the need to preserve the entire series settings and the actual recordings you can accomplished this by copying from the original drive to the new drive. This will require opening the HR which is at your own risk, so I am only providing this for informational proposes. You need to first format the new drive on HR by booting it up, then you need to take both drives onto a windows machine and do the following:

Transfer a dump of the XFS file system (folders/files/metadata) from the original formatted by the HR DVR HDD to another formatted by the HR DVR drive. This will allow for everything to transfer and have the new drive space. This will bring everything over and expand the space. This is not for the novice and again requires opening up the HR so I show the simple process in the video which is to expand by adding the external drive and starting fresh.

External Hard Drive purchased was model = WDBCKA0040HBK-NESN Western Digital External 3.0 from Best Buy (Also on Amazon)

External case can be any, just has to have an eSATA port (Amazon.com)

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