Dish Wally Receiver DVR Hard Drive
Howdy, I am outfitting our rig w/ a Dish Wally receiver and want to attach an external hard drive (EHD) for a DVR. There is a lot of conflicting info on the web as to whether an EHD attached to a Wal...
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YC 1 wrote:
Fantastic information Gdetrailer. Thanks for the input. Does not past the "logic" test for me but I can be taught. I'm an old dog with an open mind,
Yeah, back when the company I was working for first started replacing spinners with SSDs I was pretty shocked seeing the SSDs having a higher current draw rating than the spinners the SSDs were replacing.. I just naturally thought that SDDs "should" consume less power because they don't have a motor or arm moving about..
Counter intuitive for sure.
On edit..
Rummaged through my junk bins..
Found a 250 GB spinning rust drive and a 256 GB SSD drive to take pictures of..
250 GB spinning rust
256 GB SSD
Yep, Spinner at .45A and SSD at 1.7A..
Granted, much newer SSD drives HAVE improved but the last SSD I installed was a 1TB drive and it was still rated right at the 1.0A rating.
