The eSATA port on HDDVRs is for connecting an external hard drive. The drive is used instead of the internal so must be larger to be worth it.
Genies (HR34 and up) had a suggested limit of 4TB, but there is no official hard cap. Some have gone crazy with 12TB or so successfully. They have 1TB internal (or 2TB for the Genie-2 model HS17).
Regular HDDVRs have a max internal of 500GB (320GB on some older models). They have a hard cap of a 2TB external.
Regular Genies (like your HR44) support other HDDVRs so a way to increase space and have more reliability than all eggs in one basket. The Genie-2 forbids other HDDVRs/simple receivers, instead only allowing clients.
The 3rd generation Genie's HR54 revised model HR54R1, as well as later runs of the Genie-2 (without the revised R1 label which causes confusion), removed the eSATA port.
As a note, though you can return to using the internal from an external, the port is delicate so after many plug/unplug it risks breaking. Also it is not a way to transfer recordings as they are encrypted to the specific DVR.
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The eSATA port on HDDVRs is for connecting an external hard drive. The drive is used instead of the internal so must be larger to be worth it.
Genies (HR34 and up) had a suggested limit of 4TB, but there is no official hard cap. Some have gone crazy with 12TB or so successfully. They have 1TB internal (or 2TB for the Genie-2 model HS17).
Regular HDDVRs have a max internal of 500GB (320GB on some older models). They have a hard cap of a 2TB external.
Regular Genies (like your HR44) support other HDDVRs so a way to increase space and have more reliability than all eggs in one basket. The Genie-2 forbids other HDDVRs/simple receivers, instead only allowing clients.
The 3rd generation Genie's HR54 revised model HR54R1, as well as later runs of the Genie-2 (without the revised R1 label which causes confusion), removed the eSATA port.
As a note, though you can return to using the internal from an external, the port is delicate so after many plug/unplug it risks breaking. Also it is not a way to transfer recordings as they are encrypted to the specific DVR.
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