recording with 211?

[catman60]

thinking about adding adding external hard drive to record with 211 vip. any recommendations?

 

[thomasjk]

My personal preference is Western Digital. Whatever you buy has to be self powered.

 

[KAB]

The 211 currently supports up to 2T, no larger. And yes, go with WD.

 

[harshness]

I'd stay well away from mechanisms that use third party OEM drives (Iomega, Fantom, LaCie, etc.).

Don't assume you're somehow enchanted and can ignore thomasjk's advice about using self-powered drives.

Amazon is offering the Seagate Expansion 1TB drive for $78 and this should provide you with a good baseline for comparison.

 

[osu1991]

I use both a 500GB WD in 1 211 and a 1.5 TB Seagate Expansion in the other 211. Both work fine. I had 2 500GB WD until I dropped one while rewiring for new tv and it died. I had the Seagate on hand, so I used it

 

[Mr Tony]

I use to have a WD 500GB drive in my 211k when I had it. Worked great!

 

[KAB]

Amazon is offering the Seagate Expansion 1TB drive for $78 and this should provide you with a good baseline for comparison.

Just $4.00 more for 2T:
Amazon product ASIN B00834SJS0

 

[catman60]

i just purchased a
WD 1TB WD Elements Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive Storage (WDBUZG0010BBK-NESN) from amazon and i want to make sure it will work with my 211.i read where dish will accept 1 tb but it has to be a single platter drive. does anyone know if the one i got will work?

 

[Bobby]

Plug it in and find out...

 

[thomasjk]

Dish only supports drives that are self powered, that means an A/C adapter.

 

[Bobby]

Yeah, USB powered drives are not supported and sometimes work and sometimes don't....

 

[catman60]

so i guess this one goes back to amazon, now what to get?

 

[thomasjk]

Buy a WD Elements for Desktop that has the adapter.

 

[harshness]

i just purchased a
i read where dish will accept 1 tb but it has to be a single platter drive.

The requirement is for a single spindle drive (not RAID).

 

[osu1991]

i just purchased a
WD 1TB WD Elements Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive Storage (WDBUZG0010BBK-NESN) from amazon and i want to make sure it will work with my 211.i read where dish will accept 1 tb but it has to be a single platter drive. does anyone know if the one i got will work?

No it will not. You can't use portable drives. Its needs an external power supply

edit: late to the party, replies didnt show up in the post when I opened it

 

[dwarren2]

Is the usb cable a 3.0 cable? Sometimes when they say 3.0 they are referring to the cable connector.
Question is does it have it's oiwn power supply.
Don't know about the 211 but I know from experience that the Hopper will support a 3 tb drive.

 

[KAB]

Is the usb cable a 3.0 cable? Sometimes when they say 3.0 they are referring to the cable connector.
Question is does it have it's oiwn power supply.
Don't know about the 211 but I know from experience that the Hopper will support a 3 tb drive.

Max for 211 is 2T.