Fair points, though. It all seems overly convoluted.
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Fair points, though. It all seems overly convoluted.
If you mean the internal drive, I would doubt it. I don't think there has been a Dish DVR receiver, at least in the last decade, that you could swap the internal drive with anything other than the exact same model/capacity hard drive. If you mean external drive, then yes, one would assume you can still plug an external drive up to 2TB (some even larger, though not necessarily supported), just like you can with all of the other ViP/Hopper DVRs.
Yeah...saw that. Kinda bizarre scenario...makes me wonder if that was Dish playing around, or if (ironically) you might have a hard drive dying on you.
That was what I assumed, so I ordered a Hopper Duo to replace it. I am hoping it will continue to work long enough to be able to transfer the recordings.
Talk about a lucky way to fix it, too!Well, early this week, the DVR functionality on my activated ViP722k was somehow disabled, so Dish must have accidentally pushed out the software (or however they disable the hard drive) to it. I thought that the hard drive had died, so I reactivated a spare ViP612 that I had laying around to replace it.Functionally, the ViP722k with disabled DVR functionality was identical to the ViP222k, except that there was an annoying pop-up about the DVR functionality being disabled each time I tried to access the DVR. Then I realized there was one other difference: the DVR-disabled ViP722k still had the nine-day program guide, so at that point I knew the hard drive still worked. After leaving the ViP722k unplugged and disconnected from the satellite signal for about a day, I pulled the Smart Card out and re-inserted it, and then hooked the ViP722k back up in one last-ditch effort to get the DVR functionality working again. That actually worked, although I have no idea which step fixed the problem, or if it would have straightened itself out on its own. Talk about a headache!
There also has not been a Dish DVR (with an internal drive) that will let you record directly to the external drive. So, if the used internal drive in the Hopper Duo fails, you are still kinda screwed, at least until you get a replacement. Even then, any recordings still on the internal drive would be lost.
I once take the hard drive out of a 922 (1tb) and place in a hopper, then upgrade to the carbon UI, works like a charm
I thought the HDDs from neutered ViP722s were being pulled for use in Hopper Duos.
Unless Dish starts sending out 722's without HDD's in them, they're only chemically castrated. They're still a complete 722 with the hard drive disabled. Which is what got me on my earlier post; a 722 with no HDD in it is really a 222 with the wrong model number on it, IMO
That's the other thing that has me confused, so somewhere, I'm missing something...
Maybe they come form RMA'd 722's that had Hard Drive failure
Are you sure the hard drives are completely disabled, or is it just software to disable the DVR functionality? Because if my experience is any indication, the hard drive would still work for the nine-day program guide, which would be a significant improvement over the existing ViP222's, possibly warranting a new model number for the ones with this additional feature.
How do they test the drive? If it spins up then it’s good to go . How old are the drives . 500 gigs have been out for awhile. Sounds like a great gig for Dish to keep the service tech busy. Hope they pay well for service charges.
Please don't get DishSubLA started going on about this again...
The new Bloomin' Onion, coming soon to a Hopper near you!
Effective January 16, 2018, Dish Techs will not be allowed to carry anymore VIP receivers except for VIP 211’s on their vehicles, correct?
I'm just a customer and for other customers like me, all of this is gobbledygook. It's all a non-issue for us.
The hard drive in your brand-spanking new Hopper "X" is "used" after a day/week/etc. If you have ever gotten a refurbished/replacement receiver from Dish, those are likely to have used HDDs as well. Even if it had an HDD failure which caused it's return to Dish, Dish may very well put a used, but tested, HDD right back in it.
