that is sick. very nice. was looking at those drives earlier in the week
Yeah, I tried getting one the first day the appeared at NewEgg. Got distracted with other things and the next thing you know, they're sold out. The MacAlly enclosure is a bit flaky. If I daisy chain the FW with it, the desktop icons for all the drives on that chain disappear, even though they they show up in the Finder windows.
Question for you folks doing ATV drive upgrades: you have to keep a copy of the media file on your Mac/PC, correct? So, for every gig you add to your ATV you need to have a second gig for local file storage.
Your media files are stored on a hard drive that is seen by iTunes on one of your computer (i.e., its library). If you stream, then the ATV is perfectly fine out of the box. But if you sync (for better responsiveness, high-def movies, portability, et al.) then you need to increase the drive capacity of the ATV. Right now, the largest 2.5" PATA drive is 250 gb. We have modded our ATV's with a PATA to SATA adapter, which provides eSATA functionality of the ATV's hard disk bus.
Greetings, Cave Man. Would you mind sharing your process, or perhaps a link, regarding the process you followed to increase your drive space. My apologies if I'm overlooking it somewhere obvious. Thank you.
Have a look
here. The last couple of people who have tried it have been running into problems. I don't know if there's been a change in the SYBA controller or what. But at least three of us have the eSATA hack up and running.