Wally receiver hard drive issues

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I have a dish wally receiver and paid the $40 activation fee for my DVR to dish. I installed a 4TB external SSD hard drive on it. Dish tried to activate the hard drive but it would not work. The drive is USB 3.0 is compatable to work on a smart TV.

An error message appeared on my TV code 955 that said the "Hard drive had to be between 500GB and 4TB in is to work"
I then tested the hard drive on my computer and it worked fine on pictures and videos. Dish was not help as ussual.

Does any one know why it wont work on the Wally?
 
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Solid State Drives should not be used for DVR. You need to use a regular hard drive.

solid state drives have another problem. The average hard drive can stand up to millions of read-and-write cycles, while early solid state drives were limited to about 100,000 cycles before being prone to fail. That may seem like a lot, but keeping in mind that your DVR is always buffering and recording, 100,000 reads and writes could be no more than a few months of use.

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Also, 4 TB is not necessarily 4 TB. The Wally may limit the EHD to be 7,812,500,000 512-byte disk blocks when the SSD might be up to 8,589,934,592 blocks.
 
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