External Hard Drives & Genie (HR34)

[inazsully]

Until you hook it up to a new unit.

According to "E" their replacement DVR will indeed recognize an existing EHD and have no problem playing it's programming the new unit. I've been told this twice. What limitations are incorporated into DVR's that that prevent you from using them as long-term storage? Are you saying that information stored on a hard drive will become, by design, corrupted over time?

[inazsully]

D* for some reason doesn't use EHD's as addl. space, reason is unknown.

Thats said, those that like to fill up 2TB's or more of video and think it's there for long term, sorry, but your really tempting fate.

If the recvr goes down, the EHD is reformatted when you hook it up to a new/replacement unit ... it has to reformat i guess so it can SEE the new recvr.

I would NEVER fill up a HD with stuff that I really want to keep.

I would think that on a forum such as this your first sentence would have many here wanting an answer beyond "Reason unknown". My only assumption is that it's a marketing choice and a rather poor one at that. Recording an entire season of a given show does not exactly require LONG term storage. Just a few months. In the very unlikely chance that it would be lost, then I can buy the season on disc. If it's not lost I save about $30 per show. No real risk and the odds are in my favor.

[raoul5788]

I would think that on a forum such as this your first sentence would have many here wanting an answer beyond "Reason unknown". My only assumption is that it's a marketing choice and a rather poor one at that. Recording an entire season of a given show does not exactly require LONG term storage. Just a few months. In the very unlikely chance that it would be lost, then I can buy the season on disc. If it's not lost I save about $30 per show. No real risk and the odds are in my favor.

Reason unknown is because no one here knows why Directv chose to set up ehd usage the way they did. The HR24 holds 100 hrs of hd programming. That's a lot. If you get a 2 or 3 tb hard drive, there is a temptation to record so much stuff you may never get around to watching it all. That's a roll of the dice in my book given the nature of electronics.

[inazsully]

Ahh but at least it's my option to roll the dice. Just like it's my option to eat too much or drive too fast. Not being familiar with "D anymore (I used to be) I just wonder why they chose this format, and then kept it. There is always a chance that someone here affiliated with "D" might know the answer. It's no big deal. I'm probably the only one here that really cares.

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Ahh but at least it's my option to roll the dice. Just like it's my option to eat too much or drive too fast. Not being familiar with "D anymore (I used to be) I just wonder why they chose this format, and then kept it. There is always a chance that someone here affiliated with "D" might know the answer. It's no big deal. I'm probably the only one here that really cares.

Not really, a lot of us wondered the same thing, but we have been given no answers.


Also, it's NOT a Marketing ploy as D* doesn't sell or market any EHD's

[inazsully]

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Not really, a lot of us wondered the same thing, but we have been given no answers.




Also, it's NOT a Marketing ploy as D* doesn't sell or market any EHD's

Marketing was a poor choice of words on my part. Actually allowing the use of an external hard drive gives the sub an option not available on the home hard drive which is detrimental to both "D" and "E". You can transfer a pay per view onto the EHD and keep it as long as you want.