My Book AV 2 TB Dish Network EHD

[ashutto20]

Would like to purchase the 1tb for 99.99 or the 2 tb for 139.99

How many hours can be stored on either one and does anyone know of a better deal then the prices listed above

Which one is better to get??? 1 or 2 tb...im guessing it just depends on how many hours you want or need???

Thanks in advance

 

[navychop]

You will lose a lot more WHEN the 2 TB goes belly up.

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[ashutto20]

You will lose a lot more WHEN the 2 TB goes belly up.

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The 2 tb is not as stable I'm guessing ???

 

[Cold Irons]

Not necessarily; I've found no real difference in longevity between 1, 1.5, and 2 TB drives. What navychop is saying is that all hard drives can (and will) fail. The more stuff you have on them, the more you'll lose. Not a real problem in the computer world (at least for those of us that understand backups & always have two backups of important data), but it's difficult for a normal person to duplicate a Dish Network EHD.

 

[ashutto20]

So it really doesn't matter then why I get the 1 or 2...just be prepared to lose data if or when it crashes...

How much does 1 tb and 2 tb hold...I did not see it mentioned on the wd website

I was going to purchase the 1 but when I clicked on the logo thru dish network I was given an option for the 2 tb as well

It's mainly for me to store movies on is what I'm wanting to do

 

[dwarren2]

It's hard to say due to differing compression formats. EARC and WARC using different formats and ota is also different.

 

[3HaloODST]

Don't worry too much about size... Hell the Hopper has a 2TB internal drive... Should they have just stuck a 500GB drive in there instead for fear of possibly losing more? I have about seven or eight different EHDs ranging from about six years old to less than a year old. Anywhere from 250GB to 2TB. Not one has failed me yet. That's not to say that HDD failure doesn't happen, but it's safe to say that HDD failure rate isn't particularly high these days, especially with Western Digital.

So get whatever you can afford. The 2TB is a better value and has twice the space. The 1TB drive could hold anywhere from 500 to 1000+ shows, so the 2TB would hold twice as much.

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[JayStil]

I've got 2 EHD's that have failed when *sparingly* used with my 722. I know at least one of them was a My Book, maybe both. Can't get them to show up in either Disk Manager or the utilities from WD either. About the only thing I haven't tried is a Linux box. I've got a laptop with Ubuntu installed so I guess I'll at least try. But I'm not expecting anything.

I think I'm ready to just give up on the EHD concept. Never really liked the way they had to be transferred back to the 722's HD to watch anyway. And I rarely want to rewatch something I've already seen. My wife is the opposite. She'll watch a commercial laden retread of something that she's already watched 20 times, and we have the DVD sitting beside the TV.

I've got 2 211k's with added HD's that operate flawlessly though.

 

[3HaloODST]

You can watch shows straight off the EHD from the 722/Hopper without the need to transfer back.

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[thomasjk]

Exactly.

 

[KKlare]

The number of shows a drive can store is the wrong question.
You need to know the show size in GB or more generically the GB/hour.
I find SD is less than say 800 GB/hour while OTA (PBS) HD MPEG-2 can be 7000GB/hour.

Rules of thumb:
HD will be 2x to 4x the size of SD.
OTA (MPEG-2) will be 2x to 3x that of satellite HD (MPEG-4).
Typical satellite HD runs 2000 GB/hour (1300 or less if boxed to 2600 for early compression).
Remember drive makers quote in powers of 1000, users in powers of 1024 (k M G T).
Thus a "1TB" drive holds 931GB (G=1024^3) or enough for 465 hours of MPEG-4 HD on some average.
Avoid putting all SD or short shows on one 2TB drive as there may be directory limits.
Watch cases above 1000 entries. (I have some with 1500.) Use a smaller 500GB drive for smaller files, maybe.
Dish request maximum size of 2TB. Bigger tend to get slower in organizing files and buffers for directories, I suspect.
-Ken

 

[JayStil]

You can watch shows straight off the EHD from the 722/Hopper without the need to transfer back.

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You can? That must've been a software change since either of mine actually worked.

That's much better than. Maybe it's worth it to try another EHD.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[KAB]

You've been able to play back from EHD from the get go.


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[Bobby]

Yep, KAB is correct. I've been watching directly from my EHD for at least 3 years....

 

[navychop]

Same here. But when I had a ViP722, I preferred to move the program back to the DVR for viewing. IIRC, when watching off the EHD when the show was over and I hit stop and wanted to delete it, it popped me out the the EHD listing at the top. I'd have to scroll thru and find the program again in order to delete it. The Hopper doesn't do that. Hit stop and it offers to let you delete or return the the DVR listing.

 

[ashutto20]

I think I'm going w the 2tb when I get a few extra $

 

[KKlare]

The Hopper is better on the EHD because if you run to the end, you can rewind/skip back from there.
This despite there being no indication of this option. With the 722 once you hit the end you have to start over.
However, once at the end of recording on Hopper if you don't back up, then you must start over also.
I kind of wish there was an instant way to the end of the recording and be allowed to back up.
I would use it to check if I had seen the whole thing.
-Ken

 

[ohioankev]

So it really doesn't matter then why I get the 1 or 2...just be prepared to lose data if or when it crashes...

How much does 1 tb and 2 tb hold...I did not see it mentioned on the wd website

I was going to purchase the 1 but when I clicked on the logo thru dish network I was given an option for the 2 tb as well

It's mainly for me to store movies on is what I'm wanting to do

I have a 1 TB my book essentials which has 478 recordings and is 83% full contains all HD and mostly one hour programs.

I have a 2 TB my book which is 53% full which contains 86 Farscape episodes in SD, and about 10 movies in SD. The rest are movies in HD. This drive has 372 recordings.

I would heed their warning though about larger drives, I have another My Book 2TB which I purchased from Amazon.com in November that failed. (to many bad sectors) The good news is the four month old drive has a 2 year limited warranty and they basically told me to do an RMA and return it, the bad news is it's going to cost me $200 for a couple weeks to do the advanced RMA since all i have is a debit card.(hold placed on card until they receive my drive)