Category: Product Information

At WeaKnees, we’re always looking for ways to give our customers more room on their DVRs. We’ve now begun selling external hard drive upgrades for DISH Network PVRs. As usual at WeaKnees, the hard drives themselves are AV drives, made specifically for recording video. These are either Seagate DB35 or Western Digital AV line drives – the cream of the crop.

Our external DISH upgrades are further distinguished by a custom-designed case meant for use in a living room – not in an office. The case has a huge fan, but the fan is also very quiet. And we include the cabling necessary for quick and secure attachment to your PVR or set top box. Our power adapter plays nice: it won’t cover over any other outlets.

Here’s an impressive technology feat from DISH: you can attach these drives to some non-PVRs from DISH, and convert them into PVRs! See our DISH Hard Drive Upgrade FAQ for full info.

See our complete line of DISH Capacity Upgrades. They’re all in stock, and they all have free shipping!

If you’ve been watching the evolution of hard drives over the years, you’ve probably noticed the change in interface from IDE to SATA. SATA (or Serial ATA, or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a newer front-end for drives that includes lots of improvements in speed, design, and features.

But if you’re a TiVo user, what you need to know is: Series2 TiVos use IDE drives, and production of IDE drives is slowly grinding to a halt. So, at WeaKnees, to make sure we can provide an uninterrupted stream of TiVo Upgrade Kits and upgraded TiVos, we’ve been pounding on a whole pile of adapters with different configurations and chipsets, and we’ve sourced the perfect adapter.

It’s all-in-one, with no detachable parts, except the jumper (to toggle from master to slave). It’s fairly small (although not quite small enough to fit in the TCD130040 and the TCD140060 units). And it’s totally compatible with TiVos.

So if you order a one Terabyte TiVo Upgrade Kit from us for a Series2 unit, you’ll be getting one of these adapters in your order, since Terabyte drive are only available with SATA interfaces. And, as time goes by, more of the smaller capacities will start to ship in SATA format, with these adapters.

And, if you’re a do-it-yourself type, you can buy the TiVo SATA to IDE adapter from us, for your own drive. Just remember: we recommend ONLY using AV drives made for DVRs in your TiVo.