How do I replace a Hopper full of shows?

self powered drives will get power from the hopper a usb port is all that's needed

Short term. Long term- ???

I suggest only powering them when in use
Doesn't matter if it's external or internal, because you can't duplicate the recordings as a backup.

You can use h/w RAID 1 arrays, like I did. End up with two identical HDDs.

Fat lot of good it did me. I still lost almost everything, across several EHDs, some RAID.
 

Jimmy Kimmel