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Upgrade - Hard drive recommendations?
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i dont wanna be rude but i think this thread is in the AppleTV thread(i hardly check them besides right now) so im guessing it isn't for a mac..
I have upgraded mine to Samsung 160GB. I had a few small problems in that my external HD case only supported drives upto 120GB. So I got a USB to IDE cable and tried again with not further hardware problems.
I had a set of instructions for doing the HD clone from engadget, which would not work for some reason, a problem a lot of people had, but buried in the comments was a link to a wiki ( at appleTVhacks or something?) which worked first time.
I had a set of instructions for doing the HD clone from engadget, which would not work for some reason, a problem a lot of people had, but buried in the comments was a link to a wiki ( at appleTVhacks or something?) which worked first time.
I don't recommend upgrading. Streaming is way better. Why put a new HD in when you already have an HD in your mac(s)/pc(s) with all your content that can stream to your 
tv? The whole point of the tv is the streaming. The HD acts as a buffer.
tv? The whole point of the tv is the streaming. The HD acts as a buffer.
I don't recommend upgrading. Streaming is way better. Why put a new HD in when you already have an HD in your mac(s)/pc(s) with all your content that can stream to your
I thought the problem with that was that some things don't stream. Definitely photos, maybe music too.
I don't recommend upgrading. Streaming is way better. Why put a new HD in when you already have an HD in your mac(s)/pc(s) with all your content that can stream to your
What? I upgraded to a 160gb Hitachi and synced all my data, that way I can leave my mac off and still have access to everything!
Think Green People!
LOL, serves me right for not looking at which forum I was in.
I've had good luck with Hitachi myself, but I'm not sure about which drives are hotter - I always assumed that, given the same drive technology, bigger and faster spinning drives produced more heat.
Ok... But I don't know anyone who has over 32GB of photos... Music streams perfectly, FYI
I don't recommend upgrading. Streaming is way better. Why put a new HD in when you already have an HD in your mac(s)/pc(s) with all your content that can stream to your
I disagree.
Streaming doesnt work well for me. I get a lot of network stalls and network performance problems when streaming.
I have all my music and videos that I have not watched on the ATV and it works best from the local HD for me.
Also, supposively the ATV doesn't play files that are over 4gbs? I have plenty of files that are HD encodes that are over 8 or 9 gigs. This would easily be another reason to upgrade...