Dish Network USB Storage Demo Video

SatelliteGuys.US gives you another first look this time at External USB Storage from Dish Network

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Howto & Style

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• USB
• STORAGE
• ECHOSTAR
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[sspeedy43]

can u use a Flash Drive ? i tried it and it said Feature not sopported? why?

[sincityryder]

I like to replace my hard drives every 5 years. How do I transfer an old 500gig wd drive with dish content to a brand new wd 2tb drive? Do I need a pc or a mac?And how exactly would I do this? I have both but would prefer to use my mac (just more stable of a system. I don't want any problems with the transfer.)

[getdishnetwork]

This feature seemed to have a lot of potential, I'm disappointed to see how people say it doesn't work nearly as well we would have liked on here.

[rmstudio]

Totally useless as you can not back anything up persay.. All you can do is extend your storage as when you connect it to a "New" DVR or upgraded one or replacement DVR it will prompt you to reformat the external drive thus loosing all your shows! Then to top it off they advertise all the "MyPhotos" with it yet there is ZERO! and I mean ZERO info on how to upload or view photos via a thumb drive,camera,external hardrive whatsoever. They sell you a idea or feature and then totally drop the ball!

[XYZDragonCannon93]

In order to transfer your dish dvr to your external usb storage.. Does your dish network have to be active to transfer or not..

[jignesh5]

@coldheartedkurt Well, how about creating a folder on the existing hard drive and encrypting the data ? There is no need to blindly format the hard drive ? Also, the technician comes but they don't know what they are doing.

[coldheartedkurt]

@jignesh5 For clarification Sir, if you plug that hard drive to the computer to transfer the recordings or watch it, it wont work. it will asked you to format your hard drive. why? for the protection of the programs. all programs have copy rights. thats the rule about it. bassically, the benefit that you could get with the hard drive is that if the DVR gets busted & you have a replacement one, you can transfer the recordings from the old dvr to the new dvr.

[jignesh5]

I have exactly same problem -- that installer jerk did not mention that it formats my hard drive -- What shall I do to make it recognize it on computer ?

[simplydp]

My DVR has died twice. Failed hard drive both times in a 10 month period. They waived the $40 fee when I persisted. Backup will be nice for the next time it fails.

[Garrettvt]

They make 256 gb flash drives lol. Also, good flash drives can reach up to 4 mb/s, sufficient, but not even remotely good. Oddly enough though, flash drives seem to not allow large files to be stored on them.....even if the file is well under its maximum capacity...