Comments on: Easier Way To Upgrade Your Apple TV Hard Drive

By: rswapp

rswapp — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:05:49 +0000

You could use compact flash just keep in mind the number of writes you can do to the CF card.
It would require a CF to mini ATA adapter to function.
Much easier to do ATA to ATA, then again I just did an ATA to SATA for an ATV.
Bumped from 160GB to 1TB.

By: rswapp

rswapp — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:02:01 +0000

It’s easier to use a LogicCube echoplus and two laptop PATA adapters to standard PATA to mirror your drives.
Attach smaller ATA drive to sourse side of LogicCube and larger destination drive to output destination side of Logic Cube and hit mirror. Within a few minutes the drives are done.
Attach newly created drive via laptop PATA adapter to usb adapter and open iPartition and repartition drive. Mount in ATV reset and your done.
This has got to be the cleanest and easiest way to upgrade ATV hardrives.
You can also use this method to increase the drive capacity of any Apple including MacMini which I just increased to 1TB from 500GB.
I can also upgrade PATA to SATA drives for ATV, just requires a laptop PATA to SATA adapter and the willingness to hack the adapter to fit in the ATV case and your able to upgrade up to 1TB easily.

By: anm

anm — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:19:58 +0000

I recently got a new 160gb appletv and I want to try out these tricks. I would like to use a CF card instead of a hard disk. Are there any recommended cards and ide adapters for the same?

By: trip

trip — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:08:42 +0000

Worked great on my Apple TV 2.4 box. However, I had to reset to factory defaults, then upgrade the unit back to 2.4, but it worked fine and now I have 200gb more than I had before.

By: bwaadass

bwaadass — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:42:12 +0000

Success! Worked perfectly, thanks very much for this guide!! I put in a 320gb Western Digital drive, which is much quieter than the existing Fujitsu one. One thing I’d also say is that Endgaget suggested that you’d need some spray adhesive to re-seal the rubber mat – for me that wasn’t required as the glue on the rubber stays tacky for some time (and I had mine off for 24hrs) so you will be ok to reapply it without additional glue.