We bought an External Hard Drive in 2010, one which has worked with the original Shaw Cable's HD PVR (before the recent models), the Motorola DCX-3400 from Eastlink, and initially worked fine with our HDPVR 630 from Shaw Direct.
However, this week, our PVR has been repeatedly crashing, and only seems to stop when we disconnect the eHDD, which is problematic, since most of our shows are still on the eHDD, a lot of which has not been watched yet.
Now, this may be connected to the most recent firmware update (yes, the one with the Multi-Delete and the changing the Free Preview icon on the Guide for unknown and presumable unnecessary reasons), but I don't know if anyone else has experienced this. We've also deleted a whole bunch of shows during the few times the 630 had it's act together with the eHDD plugged in, but that hasn't made things better. The only other reasons I can imagine is that maybe our house may not have enough power (We live in a hundred year old house out in the middle of nowhere, with just as old wiring).
Is there anyway to fix the current problem, maybe a way to actually have the PVR 630 working with the eHDD without crashing? Or is in not electric power, and the eHDD has just gotten too old?
And if the problem can't be fixed and the eHDD is done for, how could I buy a new one? Will any type of External Hard Drive work, like one designed for a desktop be used and plugged into the 630, or does it have to be one bought for Shaw/Cable/Satellite usage. (Which on a side-note, I can't even find one through the Shaw Direct website.)