AngryRooster
Master
Having some problems with my new external drive for our receiver. Our old one is a WD AV 3Tb drive but it's old and I think it's starting to act up. Programs locking up, etc. Ordered a new WD Red NAS 4Tb with a new enclosure. Shut everything down, hooked up the new drive then fired it back up. It shortly detected the drive and said it was going to format it. Within a second or two it failed and gave an error code of 75 and wanted me to reset the system and try again. Tried several times. Turned the drive on first and let it spin up then turned the system back on. Turned them both on at the same time. Let the system fully boot into live TV then turned the drive on. Failed every time. Took the drive and hooked it up to my Linux machine and used Gparted to format it to NTFS since it was unformatted to see if that would help, nope. Same thing with EXT3. Spent 90 minutes on the phone with DTV doing it all again, same results. They are sending out a replacement unit to try. I don't think it will matter. The old external drive fired right back up. The new drive is working just fine when hooked to the computer. They said if the new unit doesn't work then they can upgrade us to the Genie (from our HR24) but we would have to extend our contract.
Enclosure: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Drive: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EHBERSE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Any thoughts or things I haven't tried but should? We've done this 2 other times with other drives and never had any problems, same receiver.
Enclosure: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Drive: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EHBERSE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Any thoughts or things I haven't tried but should? We've done this 2 other times with other drives and never had any problems, same receiver.