the 7100 / 7200 was a very stable hardware box. I NEVER had to RMA even once. Other than replacing hard drives, and happily larger ones never a hardware failure
Too bad the software wasnt stable at all
are there still some in use today?
I sold mine for big bucks to what was no doubt a hacker in canada, on insider info that the dishplayers days were numbered. shortly thereafter E announced they were being swapped out.
I replaced the dishplayers with a 721 the biggest piece of junk E ever built, with tuner failures, software with no limits, crap software and at the end a 7 minute reboot time. I gave it away just to be rid of it!!
my 522s / 625s were very stable and I upgraded to larger hard drives.
my favorite box was the legacy dishplayer a amazing box