Upgrade - Hard drive recommendations?

[thestaton]

Did some price checking today, and was curious what other people are recommending?

I would like to get a 120 or 160 that compares to the stocker, when it comes to heat, etc.

Thanks for the help.

 

[ChrisA]

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[Lord Blackadder]

...And for which Mac is this drive intended?

 

[SBik2]

...And for which Mac is this drive intended?

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..

 

[ogee]

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.

 

[dextertangocci]

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.

 

[wordmunger]

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.

I thought the problem with that was that some things don't stream. Definitely photos, maybe music too.

 

[markfc]

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.

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!

 

[Lord Blackadder]

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..

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.

 

[dextertangocci]

I thought the problem with that was that some things don't stream. Definitely photos, maybe music too.

Ok... But I don't know anyone who has over 32GB of photos... Music streams perfectly, FYI🙂

 

[Cave Man]

Did some price checking today, and was curious what other people are recommending?

Looks to be ATA-6. Segate, WD, Hitachi should all work.

 

[ogee]

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.

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.

 

[OldSkoolNJ]

Ok... But I don't know anyone who has over 32GB of photos...

Hi, Im Kevin ...... Now you know someone who has 70Gbs +

😀

Kevin

 

[Blazer5913]

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...