Upgrade internal hard drive in 612?

[am7crew]

Just curious if its possible to upgrade the internal hard drive in a OWNED 612 DVR? I put a 500gb in there in place of the 320, it reformatted itself on boot up and still said 30hours of HD available 200 of SD. I didnt have programing at the time as Im thinking about coming back to dish. But was curious if anyone has done this before. I know it voids the warranty I know some will suggest a external drive but on the subject does anything have any experience in doing something similar?

 

[TheKrell]

You got further than I did! My 612 wouldn't even recognize the 1TB drive I tried. That was a WD10EAVS-xxxx, where xxxx was not the same as the sub-sub model # embedded in the firmware. I think if you get that list of disks acceptable to the firmware, and buy one of them with the exact model number (not easy to find), then it would work.

 

[am7crew]

yeah the 1.5 TB WD i tried it wouldnt recognize however the 500GB Seagate it formatted and worked fine, however I would like to go to at least a 1TB instead of 320 to 500. Maybe Ill try ordering a seagate pipeline 1TB and see if that works.

 

[TheKrell]

Here is a list of disks embedded in the firmware, courtesy of "VIP622" on DISHMOD:

V232 HDD list for 9241 [a la ViP612]
NOTE: WDC disks with -57 prefix are OEM !

HDT722525DLAT80
Hitachi HCP725025GLA380
Hitachi HCP725025GLAT80
Hitachi HCP725032GLA380
Hitachi HCP725050GLA380
Hitachi HCS5C3232SLA380
Hitachi HCS725025VLAT80
Hitachi HCS725032VLA380
Hitachi HCS725050VLA380
Hitachi HCT721010SLA360
Hitachi HDS721616PLAT80
Maxtor 4A250J0
Maxtor 4R120L0
Maxtor 4R160L0
Maxtor 5A250J0
Maxtor 6L120P0
Maxtor 6L160P0
Maxtor 6L250R0
Maxtor 6L250S0
Maxtor 6L320S0
Maxtor 7Y250M0
Maxtor 7Y250P0
SAMSUNG HA250JC
SAMSUNG HA500LJ
SAMSUNG HA501IJ
SAMSUNG SP1243N
SAMSUNG SP1644N
SAMSUNG SV1203N
SAMSUNG SV1604E
ST31000335CS
ST3120025ACE
ST3120213ACE
ST3160022ACE
ST3160023AS
ST3160212ACE
ST3160215ACE
ST3250310CS
ST3250820ACE
ST3250820SCE
ST3250823ACE
ST3250823SCE
ST3320310CS
ST3320820SCE
ST3320832SCE
ST3500321CS
ST3500830SCE
WDC WD10EAVS-57
WDC WD1200JB-57REA0
WDC WD1600AAJB-57
WDC WD1600JB-57REA0
WDC WD2500AAJB-57
WDC WD2500AAJS-57
WDC WD2500JB-55GVA1
WDC WD2500JB-57GVA1
WDC WD2500JB-57GVC0
WDC WD2500JB-57REA0
WDC WD2500JD-55HBB1
WDC WD2500JD-57HBB1
WDC WD2500JD-57HBC0
WDC WD2500JS-57MHB1
WDC WD3200AAJS-57
WDC WD3200JS-57PDB0
WDC WD5000AAJS-57
WDC WD5000AAVS-57

As you can see above, my WD10EAVS was nearly a match, but lacked the -57 on the end. (Probably this indicates customized firmware in the disk itself.)

 

[am7crew]

Hitachi HCT721010SLA360 - ordered that one, we will see if it works

 

[mr3p]

Since we didn't hear back, I'm going to guess this didn't work?