External Hard Drive Question

[shawreth]

What size external hard drive is recommended for my 622? Can other information be on the drive or does dish use it all? Also, how much is the activation fee?

What brand works best with dish?

 

[lucky86]

There is no activation fee and the size requirements are min size 50GB max size 2 TB. The hard drive will be formatted upon connecting it to the 622 and all content on the drive will be lost.

http://www.mydish.com/upgrades/products/expand-dvr-storage/

 

[TheKrell]

1) Greater than 50GB, and smaller than 2TB.

2) Your 622 will reformat your disk as some number of 500GB partitions in ext3 format. I suppose, after this happens, you could potentially use Linux (or any O/S that understands the ext3 file system) to store additional stuff on the disk. I haven't done this and I'm unsure if the Dish receiver would find and delete it. But I think that would likely work.

3) There is no longer any activation fee for the EHD.

4) I prefer WD green drives because they're fast enough, use less power, and aggressively go into hibernate mode and spin themselves down, thereby not wearing themselves out. They also come right back out of that mode if the Dish receiver needs to access them again.

 

[lucky86]

1) Greater than 50MB, and smaller than 2TB.

50GB**

 

[shawreth]

Thanks for all the help.

 

[DogFather]

Doesn't have to be smaller than 2 TB. 2 TB is OK.