Why I am reluctant to replace my 2 HWS with H3

[navychop]

Not a good morning.

 

[HighlanderCFH]

Sorry to see that. I hope it is nothing major.

 

[Brussam]

Once in 11 years for me. Not often enough to worry about backup.

 

[Hall]

"you can still watch live TV"

Although from experience, that's not always the case. We've had an HDD failure that for whatever reason caused the DVR to reboot randomly (and too often to make TV viewing practical).

 

[navychop]

Power cord reset fixed it.

It happened after I tested using a thumb drive as an EHD. Separate thread for that.

I wonder if there's a connection?

All the same, I'm looking over my EHD collection to pick one for moving stuff off that HWS.

 

[Hall]

Power cord reset fixed it.

Wise idea working on the external HDD situation. I'd say it's a 50/50 chance that the reboot was a short-term solution.

 

[loubon]

From my experience this is the warning shot. Start backing up now.

 

[Skytrooper]

Yep, a warning shot. That's the way it starts. I am experienced with this. I had two or three go bad last year. You will eventually have a complete shutdown.

When this happens, you lose everything. I don't have a EHD. At first I was upset about this, but I learned to deal with it. I found I really didn't miss my recordings that much. I just start all over. But that's just me.

If you do need your receiver replaced, call and complain. They will offer you deals. I got $25 a month off for 6 months.

 

[navychop]

I've lost Dish HDDs before, especially before there was the EHD option.

Sigh- the 721 was SO good. When it worked. I went thru 6 or 7. If it wasn't the HDD, it was the power supply.

Lost a couple of PPV recordings. And, of course, the one I was in the middle of was no longer available. Something about Masters and Johnson. Wasn't very good, anyway. But I paid for it.

 

[HighlanderCFH]

In in the process of moving all my recordings to a 2 TB EHD I just bought. Hard drive failing in my HWS, so I'm transferring everything over to be ready for a new unit Dish will send me. But the thing that scares me is that even the EHD can fail. I wish there was a way to provide some redundancy, such as backing up the EHD.

I think there is some sort of cloud storage available with WD, but probably way above my pay grade. LOL