[FTA Michael]

If a user has a couple of USB hard drives and one receiver, can he fill one USB hard drive, swap in the second, and later swap back to the first one to watch the shows recorded there? So that he would have twice as much storage, just not all at the same time?

Edit: Never mind. Yes, he can. Found in the Dish HD forum: http://www.dbstalk.com/showpost.php?p=1460219&postcount=2

 

[Bill R]

Michael,

Yes, as long as the receivers are on the same account. There is NO limit to the number of times that you can move the drives between receivers.

Some of us use four port USB switches and it makes it very easy to bulid up a nice HD library and keep things organized. On one receiver I have 4 drives, one for HD movies and series (750 GBs), one for SD movies (500 GBs), one for the grand kids shows (120 GBs) and one for "misc." programs (250 GBs). The other receiver has a similar external hard drive setup. Next year I plan on upgrading the smaller drives (120 and 250) to 750 GBs or 1 TB drives (if DISH offically supports 1 TB drives then).