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Saturday, March 24, 2007

How-to: Upgrade the drive in your Apple TV

How-to: Upgrade the drive in your Apple TV - Engadget

Turns out it is NOT as easy as I thought! There are multiple partitions involved, you need to use iPartition and the command line....not a trivial task, but at least documented and doable now.

I'm going to futz around with mine some more before I upgrade it, the key limitation at this point seems to be that photos can't be streamed and MUST be local, therefore you're tying up space with the photos mandatorily onboard. All else CAN be streamed....but then you have to have the other machine on and running. Key to this process is careful and smart selection of preferences to determine what gets cached locally and is always available vs what you're OK with streaming. Either a really big drive or an upgrade to a Mac to be a fulltime server is in order it would appear...

-mike

PS - thanks to buddy Zane Rutledge for pointing me down this path...

7 comments:

smokeonit said...

while ur @ it install the Perian/divx codec mentioned in the http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2391956 thread...

it would be awesome to get an independent confirmation that that hack really works;-)

Unknown said...

There are GUI tools you can buy if you don't like the CLI.
Subrosasoft’s CopyCatX ($49)
Coriolis’s iPartition ($45)

Currently my post includes using iParition, but thanks to a commenter I think there is a way to expand the drive without it. I havne't updated the post yet, cause I need to test it.

Mike Curtis said...

Hey Ben!

Thanks for the tip, and welcome to the board! Your submissions/comments always welcome, and if you want to write anything to run in full on here, I'd absolutely welcome that.

-mike

Anonymous said...

My biggest complaint with the Apple TV (and Mac Mini) is the use of laptop drives. For the slightest increase in size, we could have easy access to much larger, faster, and cheaper drives.

I also don't understand why they went ATA on the Apple TV, while they've migrated everything else to SATA.

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