Can EHD data be transferred to another (larger) EHD?

[BarnRat]

If I attach an EHD to a Wally, say a 1TB drive, and later on want to increase the size of the EHD to 4TB, can the old data be transferred to the newer, larger EHD? Or is the data on the old EHD lost? Can I have data on two separate EHDs and switch between them?

 

[Josephinelcajon]

I would assume yes BUT it's transferred back to the hopper then to the new EHD. Something I need and should do soon my EHD is very old and fairly full as its small. And organize into folders.

 

[n0qcu]

I would assume yes BUT it's transferred back to the hopper then to the new EHD. Something I need and should do soon my EHD is very old and fairly full as its small. And organize into folders.

The OP was asking about a Wally not a Hopper.

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[Josephinelcajon]

The OP was asking about a Wally not a Hopper.

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I totally missed that obviously. Can two EHD be plugged into a Wally even then! He will need to have a Hopper on his account to do it.

 

[Josephinelcajon]

If I attach an EHD to a Wally, say a 1TB drive, and later on want to increase the size of the EHD to 4TB, can the old data be transferred to the newer, larger EHD? Or is the data on the old EHD lost? Can I have data on two separate EHDs and switch between them?

Sorry I missed it was a Wally

 

[BarnRat]

Another question: I assume that the cost of EHDs is on me and Dish will not contribute to this. True or false?

 

[BarnRat]

I totally missed that obviously. Can two EHD be plugged into a Wally even then! He will need to have a Hopper on his account to do it.

I assume only one EHD can be attached to a Wally. I was asking if I could unplug one EHD (with Dish data) and plug in another one (with different Dish data)?

 

[Josephinelcajon]

I assume only one EHD can be attached to a Wally. I was asking if I could unplug one EHD (with Dish data) and plug in another one (with different Dish data)?

Uless you recently bought the EHD from Dish they are no help! Absolutely can on a Hopper so I assume a Wally the same. BUT MUST be on your account. Meaning don't take your EHD to a friend's house lol Or even a vacation account.

 

[Josephinelcajon]

I read some where they used separate EHD to organize their recordings BUT was on a Hopper

 

[dweber]

Something I need and should do soon my EHD is very old and fairly full as its small. And organize into folders.

On a Hopper you can have several external hard drives. I have two external hard drives on my Family Room Hopper3 and one external hard drive on my Living Room Hopper3. One of the Hard Drives on my Family Room Hopper3 is set up as a Raid Array so I won’t lose the content.
Unfortunately you can not have folders on the external hard drive. Also the external hard drives can not be viewed using Dish Anywhere. I wish that Dish would address both of these limitations.


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[Josephinelcajon]

On a Hopper you can several external hard drives. I have two external hard drives on my Family Room Hopper3 and one external hard drive on my Living Room Hopper3. One of the Hard Drives on my Family Room Hopper3 is set up as a Raid Array so I won’t lose the content.
Unfortunately you can not have folders on the external hard drive. Also the external hard drives can not be viewed using Dish Anywhere. I wish that Dish would address both of these limitations.


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Well there goes my folder idea! I agree both should be allowed and easy for them to do.

 

[Jim5506]

Assuming the operations at recording level are the same, I was able to maintain and use multiple EHD's with multiple 211's back then. The EHD for the Wally and ViP211 seem to operate similarly, the reason the Wally will not read the 211 drive is the OS on the EHD is a graphical one vs the textual one on the 211.

If you are proficient with linux, you may be able to put both the Wally and the 211 EHD's on a linux computer and move/copy the programming between the two with no problem - no experience, just speculation.

 

[TheKrell]

I agree both should be allowed and easy for them to do.

Those of us who had a 722 w/Sling Adapter used to enjoy watching our EHD via DishAnywhere. But alas, that capability went away and then the Sling Adapter was bricked as well.

 

[llokey]

I have done it with an EHD. I'm not familiar with the Wally but have used this process on a Hopper 3, 211, and a 722k.

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I've had the same external HD on my Hopper 3 for several years, and I'm starting to see some signs of age, specifically a delay in spinning up and recognition by the Hopper on a cold start. I have >700 movies recorded that represent a lot of time and effort on my part that I am extremely...

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[llokey]

btw - I would read the whole thread. Some clarifications along the way but my procedure did work - used it earlier this year.

 

[Foxbat]

I wrote up an EHD event transfer procedure for my VIP 211 years ago, but I have no experience with the Wally platform. The process is straightforward but can take some time depending on the number of event on your EHD. Fortunately, USB 3 drives speeds up the copying process.

If you don’t have a Linux PC, that’s okay as you can download a Linux .ISO file, boot to that, and do the disk-to-disk file copies using the Evaluation mode which runs as Linux root access.

You take the new EHD (the Target), plug it into your Wally, and let the Wally format the EHD. After that finishes, you plug it and the original EHD into the Linux PC. This is where I know nothing. What you might see is several partitions on the Source EHD with files in the drive‘s root folder with a number of randomly named folders; if Dish is consistent then those folders contain the recorded events.

Going partition by partition, you select all the files and folders from the Source EHD and drag them to the partition on the Target EHD. When you are finished, you dismount or eject the mounted partitions on the Target EHD so you unplug it from the Linux PC and reconnect it to the Wally. If it works like the VIP 211 family, you should be able to see all your programs, play them back, and notice all the available space on your new EHD.

The good thing about this process is your Source EHD doesn’t change, so you still have all your original Events.

Now, if this isn’t the process, hopefully someone with a Wally and EHD will be able to share the correct procedure.

edit: and from the link posted by llokey the maximum EHD supported by the Wally is 4 TB (or at least it was in September 2021). Also, SSD is strongly discouraged based on the constant disk writing that’s being done by the Wally.