Yet again ... No Hopper-compatible EHD available

[Luddite by Choice]

I've spent at least 8 hours with the internet, this and other forums, brick & mortar stores, and Dish techs and tech service trying to find an EHD compatible with my Hopper 3 w/Sling. EVERY source says it must be a 2TB, self (110-VAC brick) powered, gen-u-wine spinning-disk hard drive, but NO ONE can actually point to one. Amazon's two-part alternative is no longer available. So how DO we externally archive a buggy Hopper, replace it, and dump the archived content onto the new Hopper?

 

[navychop]

Go bigger. Try 6TB. If you MUST, go bigger. Might not recognize max capacity

 

[Luddite by Choice]

Go bigger. Try 6TB. If you MUST, go bigger. Might not recognize max capacity

Every thread I've seen on this topic has two downsides to that: we have to partition anything bigger into 2TB chunks, and even then the resulting kluge is reportedly highly unwieldy and very unreliable in Hopper-land. People complain of losing part or all of their archived content immediately or within a few weeks.