[husker5]

Is anyone successfully using a 1TB external hard drive with their 722 and if so, could you share the make and model.

On a related note, does anyone know if Dish is planning to support anything larger than a 750GB drive any time soon?

Thanks.

 

[Jim5506]

Dish does not say a 1TB drive will not work, only that it is not supported - i.e., you are on your own if you have problems.

I do believe they have stated that an external HD with two 500GB drives in an enclosure is very unlikely to work.

 

[Mr5150]

Iomega Prestige Desktop model.

 

[phrelin]

I do believe they have stated that an external HD with two 500GB drives in an enclosure is very unlikely to work.

This has been indicated on other threads. A single 1Tb External or even larger might work, but apparently that is not true with any drive that is actually multiple.

 

[darrinb]

I have been successfully using a 1tb maxtor onetouch 3 for some time with no problems. It has 2 500 GB drives in it.

 

[Jim5506]

I have been successfully using a 1tb maxtor onetouch 3 for some time with no problems. It has 2 500 GB drives in it.

Bless you, my son.

 

[GiBi]

I have been using a Western Digital 1TB My Book Home Edition drive for several months now with no issues (knock on wood ).

 

[husker5]

I am curious though, does anyone know of any technical limitation as to why Dish is only supporting up to 750GB drives? What would be the problem going from a 750GB to 1TB single HD? Maybe this is just an internal policy with Dish and they will eventually raise this.

Just curious.

 

[harsh]

Perhaps it is the fact that you can easily use separate drives which is a whole lot safer for your collection from a corruption/failure standpoint. Given the amount of trouble with multiple drive implementations that we've seen, it is probably safer to recommend a single drive solution.

I can't envision it being a filesystem overhead issue as you're only working with one file at a time, but I'd be open to an unbuffered RAID causing delivery delays.

 

[fredp]

I am curious though, does anyone know of any technical limitation as to why Dish is only supporting up to 750GB drives? What would be the problem going from a 750GB to 1TB single HD? Maybe this is just an internal policy with Dish and they will eventually raise this.

Just curious.

I suspect last year(late spring I think?) the limit was set based on what was generally available. I don't remember any TB units readily available. 750's were out of course and $$.

 

[tommiet]

Is anyone successfully using a 1TB external hard drive with their 722 and if so, could you share the make and model.

On a related note, does anyone know if Dish is planning to support anything larger than a 750GB drive any time soon?

Thanks.

Works fine for me. Installed about 3 months ago. Formated to 987GB.

 

[Ron Barry]

See this thread for the same discussion. Closing thread to avoid two of this thread. You can see my thoughts on the subject there.

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=137412