Yet again ... No Hopper-compatible EHD available

[Luddite by Choice]

I've been using a WD Elements 2TB for my iMac Time Machine drive for years without failure.

Mine stay warm and the third one I tried even shows many layers of backup, but I can't actually -- you know -- go back in time. (At least it's a warm paperweight.)

 

[navychop]

I subsequently put a bullet through it.

Bullet? Them newfangled things are dangerous! A broadaxe is much safer!

 

[Strega]

I had to chuckle about your comment about your screen name and "2-Hopper/7-Joey/9-TV system spread over two buildings", Mesh Wi-Fi... If you're a Luddite, then hopefully your IT staff is not! What does it take to not be a Luddite now? Warp drive?

 

[navychop]

He failed as a Holosuite repairman. Couldn't find one…..

 

[Foxbat]

On that note, Apple, Sandisk, WD, and I have given up trying to get three different Sandisk and WD SSDs to get Apple's Time Machine to back up my Mac properly.

We do have a Computers and Gadgets section of this Forum. I have been using Macs since my Father-in-Law needed Tech Support and I got a refurbed Mac Pro in 2007. I might be able to help you out over there.

Thread 'macOS Time Machine Solutions': macOS Time Machine Solutions​

 

[Luddite by Choice]

I had to chuckle about your comment about your screen name and "2-Hopper/7-Joey/9-TV system spread over two buildings", Mesh Wi-Fi... If you're a Luddite, then hopefully your IT staff is not! What does it take to not be a Luddite now? Warp drive?

Unfortunately, my IT teams have been Spectrum (25 years) plus Dish (the last 18 of those years). More unfortunately, even when this stuff is running fairly smoothly, I often can't tell my wireless phone from my Dish remote due to chemobrain. I'm probably using only 10-20% of my Dish system's capability and less than 5% of my cell phone's capacity. Fortunately, I have you folks for backup (thank you!) and don't mind throwing money at the problems if it gets results. Example: I'm going to add two more mesh stations just in case it relieves some connection reliability issues.

 

[Foxbat]

I'm part Luddite in that I believe in using cabling over wireless. Wi-Fi is the connection of last resort.

 

[HipKat]

I'm part Luddite in that I believe in using cabling over wireless. Wi-Fi is the connection of last resort.

Same here and happy I'm very good with Cat 6E, Wallfishing and RG45 connectors

 

[Luddite by Choice]

I'd love to go wireless, but with two stories plus a separate steel shop set on concrete, it's not worth the hassle ... unless Dr. Mercola is right about EMF ruining our health.

And maybe I missed something in our Hopper replacement discussion, but the Dish guy who installed my system suggested today an even simpler Hopper swap approach: Cable my old Hopper directly to a new Hopper, tell the old empty one to regurgitate its contents into the new one, and when that's complete return the old one to Dish. No middleman -- no EHD, no hub, no added risk of losing some content during two transfers -- and I can watch TV as usual during the day or two it takes to transfer the contents.

BUT THAT, you accurately observe, leaves me without extra storage capacity.
To which I say, If I need more shows stored than one Hopper, let alone 2 of them, can handle, I need to get a life. It's sorta like the endless hours, days, and weeks some of my buds spend watching sports on TV; I don't watch sports ... I DO sports. When we were preparing to move away from a neighborhood decades ago, the neighbors admitted to betting on which toys I would use each weekend. They pretty much stopped doing that after one 3-day weekend in which I went skiing, windsurfing, serious desert dirt bike riding, 4-wheeling, and snowmobiling ... not to mention using one or more of them on most weekday evenings. Holy COW but I loved Utah!