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Apple TV 250GB Hard Drive Upgrade Success - with instructions

Sky Blue said:
Is 250GB the largest internal drive that will currently work with the Apple TV?
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250GB is the biggest 2.5" parallelATA drive you can get. Anything bigger would require a PATA to SATA adapter, and I'm not sure you could stuff all that into the AppleTV case.
 
Yes its possible if you google 500 GB apple tv, you will be directed to a forum, that some guy already done.

1. You will need either a pata to usb adapter to copy/clone drive
2. You will then need a Sata 500GB drive.
3. Using another sata to usb adapter to copy it over again
4. stuff it all in the case, some minor modification is needed to make it fit but possible.
 
jdmstar said:
Yes its possible if you google 500 GB apple tv, you will be directed to a forum, that some guy already done.

1. You will need either a pata to usb adapter to copy/clone drive
2. You will then need a Sata 500GB drive.
3. Using another sata to usb adapter to copy it over again
4. stuff it all in the case, some minor modification is needed to make it fit but possible.
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This?
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/530009424931/inc/1

Details are pretty sketchy. The link to the convertor module doesn't work.
 
Sky Blue said:
This?
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/530009424931/inc/1

Details are pretty sketchy. The link to the convertor module doesn't work.
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Which is kind of weird it worked for me yesterday its a European website. It costs 14 british pounds or something.

But if you follow the tutorial on edgadget, and apply it to the 500 gb one im pretty sure youd get the same results.

I was gunna bite the bullet and purchase a 500gb sata drive with the appropiate harnesses and see if it worked id put up a tut.
 
After a geeky little evening in, I've just upgraded my 40gig Apple TV successfully to 250gig. Thank you so much for posting this guide, it has been utterly priceless! The new WD HDD cost me £67.10, and a little set of Torx screwdrivers £2.30 (I didn't have any kicking about the house at all) - all in a cheaper upgrade than alot of the options out there. And, I seem to have gained way more ability using Terminal than I ever had before. 🙂

Just can't express how fantabulous this thread has been for my setup. I'm off to finish syncing up my media before I ramble any longer!

Thank you!! 😀
 
or you can just buy an external and have a 1TB :apple:tv like myself.
And if you install boxee you can set this up in less then 10 mins.
 
As I asked in a previous thread, what is stopping the Apple TV from being able to dd upgrade itself via ssh to an external USB drive?
 
Nope, that drive is SATA according to Western Digital's web site. We've had discussions about it before - an error on NewEgg's web site.
 
Cave Man said:
Nope, that drive is SATA according to Western Digital's web site. We've had discussions about it before - an error on NewEgg's web site.
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Are you sure, Newegg isn't the only one with that product number and EIDE - WD3200BEVE. There have been some 320GB drives announced, but I've not found one actually for sale before today. And I tried pretty hard before I got my 250GB one (but haven't tried since). BTW, my 250GB still works great - don't plan to change.

I still have plenty of space on it. I was a little disappointed to find out that you cannot play Audible.com content on an AppleTV, but then again, I don't usually use ATV for music/books.

I still think the missing piece of Apple's product line is some sort of centralized home storage system. The Mac Mini is an interesting potential platform for that (or foundation of the platform). Some place where you could have lots of storage and some sort of backup capability.

Apple TV is another interesting potential foundation for a home server platform. Although it probably doesn't have enough umph! I wonder if my router isn't overwhelmed with a wired iMac, wireless notebook and desktop, iPhone, Vonage VOIP, and Apple TV. It all starts to add up!
 
Thanks for the fantastic thread. This would be great as a sticky if any mods are hanging around...

I've only just bought my Apple TV but am already itching to upgrade. Am just debating whether to do it by myself or to buy a 250gb HDD pre-formatted from eBay. Especially since I have no command line skills since the BBC computer! Any recommendations?
 
dogtanian said:
Thanks for the fantastic thread. This would be great as a sticky if any mods are hanging around...

I've only just bought my Apple TV but am already itching to upgrade. Am just debating whether to do it by myself or to buy a 250gb HDD pre-formatted from eBay. Especially since I have no command line skills since the BBC computer! Any recommendations?
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There is a link to the new 320GB in a posting I made above. Here is a link for the 250GB version (WD2500BEVE) from Newegg.com.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136159
 
Thanks to paduck for his instructions and all those who came before him. Now I have a 293.79 GB Apple TV!
 

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Sky Blue said:
Thanks to paduck for his instructions and all those who came before him. Now I have a 293.79 GB Apple TV!
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Nice; using the WD3200BEVE mentioned above?

I'm looking to do the same, with our 40Gb unit. Would allow us to stop running my Mac Pro as a 'server'.
 
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