External Hard Drive limit for the Hopper?

[JerseyGuy]

What is the external hard drive limit for the hopper (original hopper w/o sling)? Also can more than one hard drive be used by swapping the cables back and forth?

 

[thomasjk]

Limit is 2TB. The Hopper will recognize 2 EHDs at one time. Additional drives can be rotated in using a USB hub. The drives must have an external PS.

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[navychop]

Or if plugged into a hub, only the powered hub must be powered. In that case, the hub would lower the EHDs, not the Dish receiver.

I keep 4 or 5 connected to my Hoppers, just turning on and off the ones I want.

 

[KKlare]

You may attach (using a hub) 4 drives and may be mixed direct and thru the hub. The limit is that only the first 2 by number can be used for playback. The others can be used in copying, internal to external or vv. The number assigned may be different after a reboot or they may be the same or some may not show up as the first 2 (and thus viewable) even when they are listed in the transfer menu as the 1 or 2. Try reboots or powering off that drive for a less drastic solution.
-Ken

 

[Elkview]

How do you tell how full the harddrive is?

 

[thomasjk]

Press Menu--External Hard Drive.

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[Elkview]

Thanks

 

[jerryez]

I have 1 ext hd hooked up to my HWS, but when I hook up the second ext HD, ths HWS does not recognize it. I plugged it into the 2nd USB port on the back and even tried the front USB port. How do you hook up the second ext HD. Both are WD my books with ext power.

 

[thomasjk]

Try a Red button reset.

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[KAB]

Power down both drives. Wait for the "You have disconnected......" message, then power back up, one at a time.

 

[KKlare]

You should be able to use all 3 ports and/or even use a 4-way USB splitter/combiner to get 4 ports.
You could even combine more ports provided not more than 4 drives are powered.
Only first 2 as found by the Hopper will allow playback. The others can transfer.
At the moment I have 3 in use with the 3rd being a sink for show to watch later.
-Ken

 

[navychop]

4? I thought it was 5. I'll have to fiddle with it later.

 

[jerryez]

I plugged, unplugged, rebooted, and tooted, but can't get the second ext HD to show or work. I have a fan plugged into the front and the OTA dongle plugged into the 2nd USB on back, but unplugged both and tried the ext HD in both, even switched the working one wiht the 2nd HD,but to no avail. The hard drive lights up, but will not show on HWS.

 

[KAB]

I plugged, unplugged, rebooted, and tooted, but can't get the second ext HD to show or work. I have a fan plugged into the front and the OTA dongle plugged into the 2nd USB on back, but unplugged both and tried the ext HD in both, even switched the working one wiht the 2nd HD,but to no avail. The hard drive lights up, but will not show on HWS.

Well, then there is a problem with that EHD. I had the same problem once with a 722K. Turned out to be a bad power supply.

 

[jerryez]

Yeah, I plugged the ext HD into the usb port on my PC. The pc does not recognize it either. Oh well!

 

[dewzan]

can you connect 1hdd to 2 211k's at the same time?

 

[TheKrell]

can you connect 1hdd to 2 211k's at the same time?

Seems unlikely. Having two hosts attached to one disk is a recipe for file system corruption.

 

[thomasjk]

can you connect 1hdd to 2 211k's at the same time?

No The 211 family can have an external hard drive to make it a DVR. You can't attach multiple external hard drives like the Hoppers.

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