Moving recordings between drives?

[SickPup404]

Hi there people.

I've got a ViP622 and a Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500GB that's almost full. A lot of movies, but also a lot of series. I just bought a second one at BB.

I'm not asking for any hacks or illegal activities.

What I would like to know is if I can put both on my PC and access the EXT3(?) partitions to copy programs from one to the other, or do I have to move them with the 622 (HD1 -> 622 -> HD2). I'd like to end up with an external for movies and an external for series that I can swap on the 622. It would take forever using the 622...

TIA
Steve

 

[Dirtydan]

I think you will need to transfer all your series or movies back to 622 then to new hdd.

 

[KAB]

The EHD for formatted with Linux, so no.

 

[SickPup404]

Thanks for the replies... Kind of what I figured...

(If only Dish had some ways for organizing the EHD recordings... You could get away with a bigger drive and forget about it!)

 

[SickPup404]

That brings to mind another question: What's the largest drive (single or RAID) anyone has successfully used on the 622??

 

[stone phillips420]

750gb is the biggest i think they can handle but im not sure

 

[KAB]

There have been successful 1Ts reported.

 

[stayloc]

(If only Dish had some ways for organizing the EHD recordings... You could get away with a bigger drive and forget about it!)

Just in case you haven't noticed, when you SORT your internal HDD recordings, you also sort you EHD recordings display. This helps a bunch when you have alot on your EHD. Kinda tripped over that one evening.

 

[SickPup404]

Just in case you haven't noticed, when you SORT your internal HDD recordings, you also sort you EHD recordings display. This helps a bunch when you have alot on your EHD. Kinda tripped over that one evening.

Nice!! :up
Got to remember that one!