Yep, gotta admit I hadn't realized how much they had gone up until I bought some micro SD cards the other day. DANG!!!
Prices for computer components in general are out of control. CPUs, GPUs, RAM, SSDs and large capacity HDDs are insane!looked at an m.2 drive and just about fell out of my chair!!! freaking AI
There can be other reasons it doesn't show all the recordings even if one had less than the 999 limit. When I had the Hopper 1 since November 2012, the Samsung 2TB 3.5" HDD worked fine from a docking station after moving the internal recordings but when plugged into the Hopper 3 when I upgraded in February 2016, it would also show only a partial amount of recordings which was less than 200 and I could not playback anything as it would return the error message box wth "spindle sleeping" or something like that. I did not transfer it to the Hopper 3 either since basically what I did was clone the drive on the computer using the docking station to another 2TB Western Digital 3.5" HDD which used a USB to EIDE/SATA adapter cable and both drives would work correctly on the Hopper 3 so a lot of times, it could be the controller that sits between the actual HDD and the USB that could be the issue. When I did transfers to newer 2.5" Portable 2TB HDDs, I had the same issues with only doing 3-4 recordings at a time and sometimes the recordings has a error and no longer works and could no longer be copied. The 20TB is with 3 HDD's maximum which means 6.66TB maximum each, I guess the 666 cursed it. This is something you cannot complain to the FCC about since DISH will only be liable for the programming they provide and equipment provided by them which would exclude third party remotes and HDDs. The OTA Tuners are DISH branded equipment. Even if they supported HDDs, it would be hard because you have to think about how many different HDD's there are and also the controller combinations along with the firmware available.
The simple fix is just set the limit to 9999, basically one more digit. The other million dollar question is how many recordings as a maximum can be seen with the internal HD on the Hopper 3.Here's a thread with an official answer:
And the official answer is: "It probably has some limit, although we do not know what that limit is"
Where? It's always been 7 TB. If someone told you the Hopper 3 supports 20 TB of EHD, they were misleading you.
Sorry, I thought I saw it on their website a while back. But yes, it's still 7TB. Regardless, the per EHD viewing limit is ridiculous. You can't even fill up a 2TB disk.
Maybe you can't but there are many, many users who load up much more that 2 TB. That is why there is a need to have EHDs to begin with. The Hopper 3 has 2TB built in.
999 events to display.Here's a thread with an official answer:
And the official answer is: "It probably has some limit, although we do not know what that limit is"
What I mean, is you can't fill up a 2TB EHD and see all your recordings. My 3TB was 60% full but it would never display everything. Maxes out to about 750 display icons. That is the problem. It's a display limit that should not be there. If I can record it and save it on the EHD, I should able to see it, plain and simple.
The display limit seems to be 750 for each EHD. There is certainly not a 999 recording limit as I have at least 1200 recording split between two EHD, not including the recordings on the Hopper's internal drive.
How is the 750 counted? Does it count what is visible to the eye like I will make up examples:
It's the number of icons, not recordings. A tv show with multiple episodes recorded is still a single icon. Same with two movies with the same title. The Recordings display shows 4 rows of 5 icons, 20 per page. When I could not see all my recordings (I knew this by alphabetical sorting), I I counted a page at a time until I could not page anymore and that is how I came up with the 750 number (give or take a couple as neither of my two EHDs are at the max right now and I don't remember the exact number, but it's close enough). This is a display issue, not a recording problem.
