USB Flash Drives

[vegassatellite]

Will a USB flash drive work with a DISH receiver? Looking for a solid-state option to hard drives and interested in storing individual shows, small blocks of content, etc. I like the idea of a movie collection being on solid-state media instead of DVD, etc.

 

[RickDee]

FLASH drive will not work.

Will a USB flash drive work with a DISH receiver? Looking for a solid-state option to hard drives and interested in storing individual shows, small blocks of content, etc. I like the idea of a movie collection being on solid-state media instead of DVD, etc.

It must be a hard drive.

From Dish Network web site:

While most major manufacturer external
hard drives are compatible with the ViP622
& ViP722, a minimum 40GB and maximum
750GB drive is recommended.

Additionally, the files on the EHD are encrypted and can only be viewed on the DVR.

 

[Peter Parker]

In fact people we have had mixed reports in other threads about whether people can use the falsh drives even to move pictures etc. FWIW I have done that and it worked fine but my experience apparently is not universal.

 

[Dirtydan]

My experience with USB flash is it is only one way, to the DVR only. Is this your experience Geronimo?

 

[SatinKzo]

I have had very mixed results using flash drives for this type of application (not with dish receivers, but other setups). Being solid state is nice, but they do have a failure rate that increases significantly the more they get used and this type of setup seems to hammer the storage medium heavily.

A good idea of what happens is when I did an experiment with 4 USB flash drives setup as a RAID 5 config. Just for kicks, I copied gigs of data to the drive, removed a USB stick and reinserted to rebuild the array. Seemed ok for a while, but within a week or so, 2 of the sticks failed completely and reported no storage space.

 

[Peter Parker]

I have only tried it one way. Maybe youa re on to something maybe I misunderstood what others tried to do.

 

[vegassatellite]

Well, if viewing photos is the only thing that can realistically be done, then I have some ideas to incorporate with that.

 

[Claude Greiner]

I can't wait till flash drives get big enough where we don't need hard drives.

Just open up a DVR and there will be 10 or so flash drives

 

[vegassatellite]

I can't wait till flash drives get big enough where we don't need hard drives.

Just open up a DVR and there will be 10 or so flash drives

I'm waiting for memory to be measured in TeraBytes.

 

[vegassatellite]

Does DISH charge any upfront or recurring charges to be able to view photos from a USB flash drive?

 

[Smith P.]

Shhh, don't tell that to Dish !

 

[cparker]

Does DISH charge any upfront or recurring charges to be able to view photos from a USB flash drive?

No. I plugged in a flash drive with photos and it worked fine and I do NOT have EHD activated. My panasonic plasma has an SD card slot though, and I had more options viewing photos that way. The USB flash drive into a 622 does work, however, even if EHD is not activated. At least mine does.

 

[TheKrell]

Which receivers can view photos on a flash drive?

 

[tempVAdish]

Which receivers can view photos on a flash drive?

I'm not sure if any will read off the flash drive, but I'm sure someone else can give the yes or no answer. I think I'm right to say that my old 921 would read a digital camera through the USB port so you could view photos that way, and, going out on a limb here, I think all the newer dvr's would do that. Just don't quote me on that

Rob

 

[vegassatellite]

Anyone know if you can move photos from a flash drive onto the 722 so that you can view the pics without having to have the flash drive inserted?

 

[cparker]

Anyone know if you can move photos from a flash drive onto the 722 so that you can view the pics without having to have the flash drive inserted?

It's been a while since I played with this, but I think that although I could read the photos directly from the flash drive, in order to MOVE them to the 622 I think I got a pop-up telling me that the feature was not available.

Like I said, it's been a while. But plug in a flash drive and try it. Also have a look at your TV. Not sure what you have there, but my TV had far more options for displaying the photos than the 622 did.