Apple TV Mk1 mod. Largest HDD??

[wappinghigh]

I'd like to ask just how big a HDD could you use in the older style AppleTV Mk1?

I've seen 320G mods. But why can't you get/fit a 2Gb, even3 Gb HDD into an old style AppleTV?

What's the limitation

Cheers

[WillEV]

Main limitation is that the drive is PATA not SATA, so you need to jam a 2.5" HDD and PATA-SATA adaptor into the enclosure. I've put a 500GB in one previously. Not sure if the max file size of an Apple TV is limited by HFS+ or not, but that's a high limit if so.

[wappinghigh]

But can you go higher? I'd buy an old one off ebay, if I could push the limit to say 1GB....just to get my Apple mv4 movies into and playing from the Control4 media library...Anything to get full "all in one spot" integration

[wappinghigh]

^ Can you sit or connect/run the PATA->SATA adapter outside and have the SATA drive sit on top or something..I'm desperate

[RyanE]

If you do that, be careful where you put the drive.

Those units generate so much heat...

RyanE

[ExtraVeg]

How about in http://www.geekschwag.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/google-egg-fridge.jpg?

[C4Programmer]

if you get the sata - pata it is limited by what is sold. I even used an external 2 TB USB drive, but i didnt like the setup so I reverted to a 320GB sata drive.

[wappinghigh]

if you get the sata - pata it is limited by what is sold. I even used an external 2 TB USB drive, but i didnt like the setup so I reverted to a 320GB sata drive.

I didn't even know the AppleTv Mk1 could store movies on an attached external USB drive. I've forgotten. Is this true?, and can itunes movies put on this external drive, be populated in the C4 movie library and streamed off this drive with the Ev driver???

[wappinghigh]

How about in http://www.geekschwag.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/google-egg-fridge.jpg?

Thanks for that, but it's not about being a geek. It's about making your driver work properly with a reasonable amount of storage space

I think anything under 1GB these day's is too small to be practical. A series like Game of Thrones will soon fill up the drive

[ILoveC4]

I'm assuming everyone you say GB you mean TB?

[wappinghigh]

I'm assuming everyone you say GB you mean TB?

LOL..whoops. Sorry, of course..Typo.

[ILoveC4]

My typo too...I meant every time.

[wappinghigh]

Dear C4programmer: Is this what you mean?..

Use the ATVFlash soft-mod and hook up a 1TB-2TB external hard drive via USB to the APPLETV and use the external as your primary hard drive as your source on the AppleTV?

If this drive can then be "seen" as the primary HDD, can the EV Driver direct movies to be streamed from this drive and populate the content in C4media?

Have the boy's at EV ever tried this? Seems a neat and easy solution (if it works)

[C4Programmer]

Yes, I used the patch stick to make the External USB Drive the primary drive. Control4 did populate with the movies and EV driver worked with it fine and no issues. I didnt like the extra space and power supply needed in the rack so I regressed to the internal 320GB HDD without any mods. At some point I may try the internal 750GB drive with the adapter.

[wappinghigh]

Thanks!! I'll give the usb drive <> AppleTV Mk1<> ATVFlash <> EV driver <>C4 media integration a shot

BTW are you able to give specifics of your 750GB HDD upgrade idea/plan..?

Cheers

[ILoveC4]

wappinghigh, why don't you just get a NAS? Seems you're got a lot of devices with a bunch of drives in them.

[wappinghigh]

^ That's easy, because you can't mix Apple DRM movie files with mkv's etc all on the one NAS...

[ILoveC4]

^ That's easy, because you can't mix Apple DRM movie files with mkv's etc all on the one NAS...

Why not? Before I dumped iTunes I had all my Apple DRM files on my NAS with everything else.

[wappinghigh]

Ok sure, but you can't then play them all from within the one library, unless you have a mac and an OSX driver and itunes that plays mkv and itunes that works properly everytime with a NAS and...never mind...