Does external drive require external power?

[jerryez]

Does external drive require external power? This used to be a requirement, but external powered drives are harder to find.

 

[Bruce]

Does external drive require external power? This used to be a requirement, but external powered drives are harder to find.

The one I have for my Tablo does.

 

[Bobby]

Does external drive require external power? This used to be a requirement, but external powered drives are harder to find.

Looking at the DISH website, they are not listing powered as a requirement any longer.

MyDISH

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[tjboston5676]

The externally powered ones are more likely to work but people have had success with some usb powered ones

 

[navychop]

I still question the added load on the power supply. Might shorten the life.

 

[jerryez]

What is a good external powered Hard Drive to purchase?

 

[Bobby]

What is a good external powered Hard Drive to purchase?

I've been using WD for years and years.

 

[charlesrshell]

I've been using WD for years and years.

Same here. I am still using two WD 500GBs that Dish recommended years ago.

 

[jerryez]

Which model of WD? I use WD My Book now, but do not see them available anymore in 1 TB size. The 2TB is twice the price of the passport or element.

 

[navychop]

You could buy a separate enclosure. Or plug an EHD into a self powered USB hub.

 

[Bobby]

Which model of WD? I use WD My Book now, but do not see them available anymore in 1 TB size. The 2TB is twice the price of the passport or element.

I am using a powered Elements. It is a 1TB and not available any longer but 2 TBs are.

 

[charlesrshell]

Which model of WD? I use WD My Book now, but do not see them available anymore in 1 TB size. The 2TB is twice the price of the passport or element.

I am using two powered Western Digital My Book WDH1Q10000 500GB.They are around fifteen years old.

 

[TRG]

I still question the added load on the power supply. Might shorten the life.

That depends on what kind of USB drive you buy, spinning disk or SSD. SSD uses much less power but they also come with an added expense.

 

[Bruce]

Bought a Western Digital 8TB Elements Black for my Tablo in 2019, still going strong.

Bought it on Prime Day then for $100, now $164, still a good price for the size and comparing it to others.

Also plug and play, hooked it to the Tablo, ready to go after a few minutes.

My only issue, is when I connected it to the Orlando market, it blanked all the recordings from the Detroit market, not the HD fault.

I had every episode of the Beverly Hillbillies saved on it, gone, but now it is on Pluto, so a moot point.

 

[TRG]

on the Western Digital Elements drives. I have two of them. An 8TB and a 12TB. I purchased them on sale from Amazon as well. IIRC I got price drop notifications from slickdeals for both of them.

https://slickdeals.net/

 

[n0qcu]

Or plug an EHD into a self powered USB hub.

Trouble is that those aren’t very easy to find either.

 

[navychop]

Try the Amazing place.

 

[Bobby]

Try the Amazing place.

Really, I have 4 of them purchased from Amazon.

 

[dishdude]

I use this enclosure with hard drives taken out of laptops, you can get new ones that were taken from a new laptop that was being upgraded to a SSD for around $20 on ebay.

Amazon product ASIN B0B2BSZQ49
View: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B2BSZQ49/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[RobMeyer1]

Looking at the DISH website, they are not listing powered as a requirement any longer.

MyDISH

my.dish.com

Check Dish's website first. Some posts are talking about drives that are not compatible like SSD's and EHD's above 7TB.