Good to hear that off the shelf Seagate will work.
DIRT quoted those rates to me when I recently had a 211 die. I purchased a new 211k for $63 shipped elsewhere. Although, they did offer to "upgrade" my 211 to a 211k or z for $50 or something but it would have been a refurb.
Just a quick question: When you installed the drive you did nothing to prep it, correct? The Hopper sensed the new drive and did everything.
Just wanted to thank you for letting us (me) know about this, since my one of my HWS HDD's crapped out a couple weeks ago. Since I do own mine - & since I really wanted to hang onto that original HDD in hopes of finding a way to (at least temporarily) resurrect it - dropping a new one in was a great option! Found a place on Amazon that had these exact drives f/only $61, so I went & ordered 2, so that I had another spare one on hand, in case this happens again. Since my receiver was out of warranty, it was cheaper just replacing the drive...plus I got to keep my (new) receiver, instead of getting somebody else's refurbed crap. No problem whatsoever with the replacement & (thankfully) my timers were restored out of the remote.
I have thought, and heard, different things about it being a software defect and also the usual ones that fail. I still have my 2, but like you mentioned, it has been posted quite a few times as of late, and usually not to long after SW updates.
Have not had that problem. My warning sign was when playing back a recording, the Hopper would freeze. Could not rewind, FF, nothing. After hitting the live TV button several times, over about a 15-20 period, it would go back to like. If I tried to resume playing from freeze point, it would play a few seconds and freeze up again.
