Installed a External Hard Drive for Dish 211z. When I watch recorded programming the audio skips every few seconds. Tried a new hard drive, same problem. Dish tech thinks it's a problem with the receiver although he says the receiver is up to date. Concerned a new receiver won't solve the problem.Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas?

what external HD did you use ?the USB port might not support the power needed for a USB only drive that gets power from the port, this will reduce read and write speedyou might need a faster drive that uses less poweror you can try a drive that uses an external power supply

Dish tech told me to get a Seagate 1 TB. I am hooked up by USB to the receiver with the cable that came in the package. What kind of a hookup would a external power supply look like?

I just installed a Seagate this weekend. I don't have any skipping with my 211z.The HD I bought came with a 120v power supply and two cords. One USB and the other a eSATA. I used the USB cord. What I don't like is if I unplug the Hd for a day or so and then plug it back in the Dish has to restart, which means it has to recycle through the sat search again. Other than that it's really nice to be able to pause live tv, fast forward or rewind.I only have a short amount of time using it this weekend so I'm not totally familiar with it.

goducks10 wrote:I just installed a Seagate this weekend. I don't have any skipping with my 211z.The HD I bought came with a 120v power supply and two cords. One USB and the other a eSATA. I used the USB cord. What I don't like is if I unplug the Hd for a day or so and then plug it back in the Dish has to restart, which means it has to recycle through the sat search again. Other than that it's really nice to be able to pause live tv, fast forward or rewind.I only have a short amount of time using it this weekend so I'm not totally familiar with it.The USB is plugged directly into the back of the 211z?

Yes. There's two different types of cords you get. At least with mine I did. The 211z only has a USB port not an eSATA port. I plugged the USB cord into the back of the 211z and the other end, which looks like a phone charging end into the back of the Seagate. Then in order to power up the Seagate you need to plug the power cords pin jack into the Seagate and then plug the power adapter into a wall plug.

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goducks10
Explorer
Sep 17, 2018
I just installed a Seagate this weekend. I don't have any skipping with my 211z.
The HD I bought came with a 120v power supply and two cords. One USB and the other a eSATA. I used the USB cord.
What I don't like is if I unplug the Hd for a day or so and then plug it back in the Dish has to restart, which means it has to recycle through the sat search again. Other than that it's really nice to be able to pause live tv, fast forward or rewind.
I only have a short amount of time using it this weekend so I'm not totally familiar with it.
tko9900
Explorer
Sep 17, 2018
Dish tech told me to get a Seagate 1 TB. I am hooked up by USB to the receiver with the cable that came in the package. What kind of a hookup would a external power supply look like?
MrWizard
Moderator
Sep 16, 2018
what external HD did you use ?

the USB port might not support the power needed for a USB only drive that gets power from the port, this will reduce read and write speed

you might need a faster drive that uses less power

or you can try a drive that uses an external power supply

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