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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Outstanding. It also explains why the speed I observed with a USB 3.0 drive attached to the top rear port was so slow ;)
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    I tried to connect 3 drives in the same manner as you. This time, the USB 2.0 port in the front is reporting a drive and it seems to working. I plugged my large drive into the rear bottom port. I then connected a new drive to the rear top port. The confirmation box was presented to format the...
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    With everything connected, its not possibly for me to examine the back of the Hopper 3 chassis easily. All the specs I've seen claim both rear pots are supposed to USB 3.0. How did you make the determination that rear USB ports are different?
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    How are your 3 drives connected? Each to different USB port? Or using a USB hub? I've tried a drive on each USB port. The front port is only USB 2.0 and it didn't recognized a drive was attached.
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Good to know. I'm using the classic UI on the H3 and only see 2. Thanks
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Curious, do all 3 drives show up in the transfer destination list?
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    That is an interesting fact. User have reported that older receivers had this limit. I wonder if this might have changed with the newer receivers. I'm currently at ~850 movies, using about 3.5TBs. Might try to transfer a couple hundred TV shows over. Will report back my findings.
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Very belated update. Have been able to get a 5TB drive connected and functioning properly. Pretty sure that even larger drives will work, possibly up to 8TB. The key I believe is to get a drive enclosure that reports the drive's capacity in 4k sector sizes. When reporting 4K sectors, the total...
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    EHD issue with Hopper 3?

    I have successfully connected both a 4TB and 5TB drive to my new Hopper 3. For my previous Hopper 2000 it *appeared* that 3TB was the actual limit regardless of what Dish claims to support. Having done a bit more investigation I think there was a chance that the Hopper 2000 might have supported...
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    I'm curious, since the format restrictions of the EHDs is bit atiquated, did you format the entire drive as one big partition? Or did you create 7 or so partitions on the drive? I suspect the the MAC may have been using something other than the MBR partitioning scheme, perhaps GPT. I've found...
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Your right, when attached to a Linux system one has to do operations on the EHDs with root priviledges. If you tried this, can you post the exact command and the error message response?
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    4TB EHD Just tried a 4TB drive attached to my hopper. Sadly, the format never ended. I did not attach the drive to my desktop in an attempt to diagnose the issue. I suspect this size drive exceeded the max number of allowed partitions and as seen earlier the hopper will try endlessly to...
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Using GPT vs MSDOS partition tables As you might have expected, my experiment using GPT was not completely successful. The hopper tolerated a drive formatted this way (it didn't ask to reformat), but it also showed 0 space available on the drive. So atm this appears to be a dead end. I'll...
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    I agree this would be ideal, but finding an enclosure that reports the actual sector size has proved to be a challenge. This subtle characteristic is not a detail normally included in the enclosure's literature.
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    External Hard Drive Limitations for Hopper

    Found the problem with the "home assembled" EHD I reported yesterday the USB bridge in EHD I assembled was reporting 512 byte sectors instead of the drive's native 4K sectors. In addition to performance issues with non-sector aligned I/O operations, the smaller sector size produces 8x larger...
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