Got mine working. Rigged up, but I don't care. It's a bare external drive with a SATA kit.
Works great and was dirt cheap (drive was lying around, the connector was $10).
Can't see it and it works like a champ. Good enough for me!
Let me know how yours survives the nightly reboot. My Newer Technology has been MIA more often than not after the reboot.
I may have our first "Undocumented Feature": if my receiver does the nightly reboot when it's tuned to an ATSC channel instead of a satellite channel, it does not put the drive on-line. I was tuned to a local digital station this morning and tried unplugging and re-plugging in the EHD. The 211 said that the drive was detected and that a reboot was needed, but it did not come back. I tried it three times, then I tried tuning the 211 to HDNet and rebooted. The drive showed signs of activity and after it came up, and the DVR button was working again.
I'm going to test more, because I can't believe that something this obvious would have been missed in testing.