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Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Dale Philpott — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:58:49 -0000

Umm, not the worlds first, sorry, i put my old macbook pros ssd in my AppleTV in the car, last year...

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Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

snowleopardsam — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:47:03 -0000

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

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

jerry — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:22:01 -0000

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?

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Petronio — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:28:22 -0000

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.

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

zarkoff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:08:22 -0000

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... ;)

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Chas — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0000

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.

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:17:17 -0000

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.

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Josh — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:45:25 -0000

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 :)

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Dizzle — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:28:35 -0000

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

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Derrick — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:50:13 -0000

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

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

josh — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:01:00 -0000

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 ;-)

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:58:32 -0000

"Capacity = 6.88GB ??"

Ditto.

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Mack — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:10:37 -0000

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

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

Joe — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:46:12 -0000

Capacity = 6.88GB ??

Re: The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV

mr confused — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:04:45 -0000

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...