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They did, they sent me a replacement 612 free of charge and they said to keep the one with the defective drive, so its all good.

Thanks for the replies, i found that some of the other models on the list are a better option and are very cheap even with a one-year warranty, for example the 500gb is only $28.00(with a 1-year warrant) and it is on the approved list. The models with -57 are now extremely rare and are too...

Hi, i have a list of approved internal hard drives for vip612, my question is that although the model(s) with a "-57" suffix preceding the model number like "WD3200AAJS-57" will definitely work; is it possible to replace it with a version which does not include the "-57" after the model number...

thanks for the replies, i was thinking the same, for the time been i will stay with the vip612 at least till Dish phases them out.

I have many recordings saved from a vip612 to an external hard drive. My first question is, will I be able to play back these videos on a Hopper-Duo without transferring them to the hopper's internal storage? Direct Ext-HDD playback. Second question is, if I save recordings to an external...