Question On External Hard Drive For VIP622

[denisincalif]

I am just about ready to pay my $40 and attach an external hard drive to my 622. I went to Dish's web site and to various threads here at SatelliteGuys to gather information. Everything looks straightforward except for two things:

1. What brand of 750 GB disk to buy. Almost every brand seems to have some people who love it and some who have had problems. Right now I am leaning towards Western Digital unless someone has some new information which would scare me away from it.
2. Here is a quote from the Dish web site:

• I already paid the one-time $39.99 Archiving Activation fee to connect an external hard drive to my ViP-series DVR receiver – do I have to pay the DVR EHD one-time fee also?
  
  

  Yes. These are two different services.​

What does that mean? Are there two $40 fees to pay?

 

[FitzAusTex]

I have a seagate, a western digital mybook, and a maxtor. My favorite is the mybook. -none of the seagate sleep issues, and the mybook wakes up the fastest.

 

[Smith P.]

You messed up two EHD: 1st is EHD for 722/622 ans 2nd - DVR EHD for 211/411 !