Hard Drive Bargain Watch

[photog72]

Too bad nothing bigger than a 1TB works on a 211/211K. Good deal @ Costco.

just picked up a Segate 2 TB HDD from Costco. $20 off total with tax and shipping...

$131.23

formatted fine, now just switching cables and putting everything from two 500 gig and one 1 TB drive on it. having to clear the DVR HDD download from old to DVR then upload to the new big drive.

 

[smoeke]

you can try a version of the freezer trick.
when a hdd starts to fail some have had luck freezing it and then reinstalling it, long enough to save file etc. not sure how you could do this with the whole receiver,but maybe you can chill it long enough to get something extra out it.

just a last resort

 

[smoeke]

anyone here anything about future dish dvr having USB 3.0?

 

[smjbh5]

Whats the difference between the WD My book and the WD elements?

 

[chicagonettech]

The ideal solution would be to build a RAID array, consisting of, for example, 2 or 4 1 or 2 TB drives, in matched pairs, one half of each pair acting as a mirror to the other. Then you would have the advantage of larger storage sizes, and you would never lose anything (the small ones fail too). Unfortunately I don't know if the DVR's support that kind of configuration (I've only seen it on PC"s).

There are several USB Raid Controller solutions available here: USB RAID System

There's a USB RAID LEVEL V - with 4 drives, all must be the same size and you loose the capacity of one drive, ie: N X CAPACITY - CAPACITY OF ONE DRIVE = RAID CAPACITY.

Theoretically, if you placed 4 two terabyte drives into a RAID LEVEL V controller, once they were configured by the firmware, and formatted by the Dish Network software, you would have a total of SIX TERABYTES of usable space for your shared / stored recordings.

FOUR DRIVES at TWO TERABYTES EACH = EIGHT TERABYTES. Subtract the size of ONE drive for checksums, and you have a total of SIX TERABYTES.

Don't worry though, the checksums are not stored on a single drive within the RAID array. OVERSIMPLIFIED: Under RAID LEVEL V, if you store the word CAT, the C is on DRIVE ONE, the A is on DRIVE TWO, the T on DRIVE THREE, and the CHECKSUM on DRIVE FOUR. Again, an oversimplification, but the theory of how RAID ARRAYS, larger than two driver mirroring, work.

The link to the Raid Level V, USB controller, is here: Mediasonic 4 Bay RAID 0/1/5/10 3.5SATA HDD enclosure-usb 2.0 HFR2-S3B#

The advantage of RAID LEVEL V is that if one drive fails, everything will continue to operate, AND, you can replace the defective drive and the RAID ARRAY will rebuild the data on the replaced drive as the system continues to operate.

RAID LEVEL V is generally the best way to go as it gives you the best option to recover data. My work is with highly secure, and scalable, networks which require 100% uptime and availability. Between RAID LEVEL V and remote backup of data - in case of a catastrophic server failure, we are never down.

For the record: I am running Western Digital MYBOOK ESSENTIAL, TWO TERABYTE hard drives on my 722K receivers without a problem. They give us lots of space to store all of the nicely restored, HD versions of everything from Turner Classic Movies and allow us to move them between receivers.

External hard drive storage / transfer is one area in which Dish Network GOT IT RIGHT!

 

[markmad999]

HD Size and how many?

I have searched for a couple of hours (Probably not using the correct search words) and can't find if the 622 now supports more than a 1TB drive?
Wa also wondering what the maximum amount of external drives was for each receiver.
THANKS!

BTW, I have a Seagate Free Agent Pro 750GB (sleep disabled) and a 1TB Calvalry drive for my 622 at the moment and they work great!

 

[yaz96]

I have searched for a couple of hours (Probably not using the correct search words) and can't find if the 622 now supports more than a 1TB drive?
Wa also wondering what the maximum amount of external drives was for each receiver.
THANKS!

BTW, I have a Seagate Free Agent Pro 750GB (sleep disabled) and a 1TB Calvalry drive for my 622 at the moment and they work great!

I have 15 EHD's that I swap between 2 622's. My largest is 1.5TB, but I think you can use up to 2TB, now.

 

[jerryez]

I have 15 EHD's that I swap between 2 622's. My largest is 1.5TB, but I think you can use up to 2TB, now.

You will never leave Dish for sure.

 

[dfergie]

Maybe not a bargain but... picked up a Seagate Go Flex Desk 2 TB today at Wal Mart for $119...

 

[dfergie]

Walmart has the Seagate 1.5 TB free agent drives for $70 for the Black Friday special...

 

[hawker152]

Best Buy has a Seagate Go Flex desk model on sale for 89 bucks right now. It's 2 TB and does USB 3.0. I picked up 3

 

[BobMurdoch]

Elements 2TB : Target Search Results

Target has a 2TB WD Elements for $69 for Black Friday.

 

[photog72]

Western Digital Elements 1.5TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAU0015HBK-NESN

At newegg.com. Use WD15TB to make the total price $59.99 includes free shipping. Limited to first 1000 orders only!

 

[yaz96]

Western Digital Elements 1.5TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAU0015HBK-NESN

At newegg.com. Use WD15TB to make the total price $59.99 includes free shipping. Limited to first 1000 orders only!

Code not working, When did it start?

 

[photog72]

Code not working, When did it start?

Offer expired. Sorry. It went quick.

 

[dfergie]

I got 1 of the $70 Walmart in store 1.5 seagates, then thought about it and went back in after loading my truck & got another for a Xmas gift...

 

[dfergie]

Seagate 2 TB at frys (wipe out the sw on it first)$89 today only
FRYS.com | Seagate

 

[Ghpr13]

Would this work for EHD with my VIP722k:
WD Elements 500GB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive.
Thanks,
Ghpr13

 

[Bobby]

Yes.... Why not step up to a 1TB Elements?

 

[Ray_Schwarz]

Would this work for EHD with my VIP722k:
WD Elements 500GB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive.
Thanks,
Ghpr13

Usually "Portable" means the Drive is powered by the USB port. Look for an "External" drive which has an AC power supply included.