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mr confused · 1 year ago

it's nice how you have done this... but what is the point..? considering, you are now $160 worse off and a sizeable chunk of your life shortened :P

is it me or does that look like an pata/ide...

Joe · 1 year ago

Capacity = 6.88GB ??

Mack · 1 year ago

...about as much point as getting Apple TV!

James · 1 year ago

"Capacity = 6.88GB ??"

Ditto.

josh · 1 year ago

I did it to try to get the ATV to run cooler, i want to mount it where there is not enough air flow to keep it cool... It now runs warm to the touch, but not hot like before. and its Quiet.. you only hear a small small amount of fan noise only when you press your ear to the unit.

im unsure of the 6.88G size. i thought it would be closer to 9gig. my SSD is only a 32GB pata 44pin device.

I dont store ANY movies or music on the actual ATV so 6 gig is still to much wasted space :) -- and even if i did need space i can mount my home folder to my NAS where there is over 4TB of storage ;-)

Derrick · 1 year ago

Cool idea. But wouldn't it be cheaper just to get 2 X 12 cm fans aimed at the apple tv?

Dizzle · 1 year ago

I honestly don't feel it was worth the time and the $160.

Josh · 1 year ago

derrick: the whole point was noise & heat.. buying more fans defeats the purpose.

anyway, this will be the only ATV of the 4 i have to get this mod.

This mod is not worth the hassle & price :)

Michael · 1 year ago

My three questions are how much cooler (as in temp) does it run, how much less power does it use and what's it's boot time? Sounds pretty cool to me, though I would probably wait until the prices come down some on SSD's.

Chas · 1 year ago

I just put a 250GB drive in my AppleTV. I was worried about any excess heat from the drive but everything seems to be working fine.

zarkoff · 1 year ago

Remove the power supply to an outside 'brick', put the hard drive in an external case, and drill some airholes in the top and bottom, and then finally put some .25" rubber feet under the atv case. That should fix any heat issues... ;)

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Petronio · 1 year ago

I hake my 40 gb apple disk blocked.
Is it possible to have the image used by josh and a small paper with the procedure he have done for istalling this image in the new disk?
Thanks in advance.
Petronio

P.S.
I have xp and ubuntu NOT apple. Ask to the administrator for my mail.

jerry · 11 months ago

Nice hack if you see it as a "proof of concept", otherwise it may be a liitle expensive.

A much cheaper alternative with a similar result would be replacing the internal ATV HD with a cheap Compact Flash card in an IDE-to-CF adaptor. I did not try this in my Apple TV but have succesfully tried this in laptops.

What you would need is:
- adaptor that plugs in your ATV HD cable and enables plugging in an CF card. Can be had for $10 or so.
- A CF card. The ATV operating system requires less then 4G. Would cost you another $10 or so.

Such an ATV could be used normally for streaming from an Itunes library on a PC. With the proper hacks playing media from a USB disk attached to the ATV or a NAS have been reported to work.

Total of $20 an probably some hours of your life.

Who dares?

snowleopardsam · 3 months ago

15GB/32GB Solidata Indilinx SLC SSD will be nice...
I am using it...