Buying a used ATV 40g and want to upgrade with a 320 or 500g drive.

I see the drive is a WD Scorpio and is blue I think, but is the interface I need a Sata or some other?
and can the atv take a 500g drive?

Appreciate some advice Guys.
Thanks

Its IDE (PATA), not SATA.

What type of hard drive does the Apple TV use? Can it be upgraded? @ EveryMac.com

It seems like a complex process to do it. Why don't you just hack it and plug in a 500GB external drive?

Well its one more 'Bit of stuff' to look at and from what I can see its just a few screws holding the drive in place, plus I would have thought the non usb would be faster.
So seems an easy drive swap and then a re flash 20 mins to do?

I don't think its just a straight drive swap. I think you have to change config files or similar.

I would seriously question the hassle involved with a HDD swap out. The easier and cheaper option would be to use ATV flash and use a external USB drive.

It will also open up many more possibilities for your ATV.

Good luck

agree. The Apple TV basically is shite without the software hack. It's really only useful as an airtunes device and for watching trailers without the hack(s)

Go an external disk

Apple TV - WiFi Card + BCM70012 HD Hardware Decoder + XBMC = WIN!

I stream everything off a server so my 40GB ATV is fine and my 160GB ATV is just over kill :P

Hmmm, I'll add some info on this to the wiki

Ok well this is what I have now done...after having the shits scared out of me by most of you! :-) I dumped the idea of a cheap 40g and hard drive upgrade and went and purchased a new 160g from Mac Worx in Joondalup. Apple store had a refurbished for $275 1/2 and hour before I made my decision, got to the site and lo and behold of course...NO refurbished left! lol

Any way got my new one home eagerly started set up and Mmmm cant seem to get it to accept a connection to my Wireless. Bugger it I so much wanted to play with it last night.

Craig I took your point regards atv flash and got that downloaded. Now all I need is to find out why I cant get the atv to connect to my network.
I will make a sep post in a moment for that. BUT if anyone right now has some ideas to throw in it would be appreciated or a Perth Members who is happy to take a phone call! Hi Craig :-)

Craig , if you don't get the answers you are after here ( which would surprise me given the amount of forum members here who own an Apple TV ) then head on over to the Apple Discussion forums ...
Apple - Support - Discussions - Apple TV
where all manner of things ATV are covered

Stewie

Originally Posted by Madeezy

Ok well this is what I have now done...after having the shits scared out of me by most of you! :-) I dumped the idea of a cheap 40g and hard drive upgrade and went and purchased a new 160g from Mac Worx in Joondalup. Apple store had a refurbished for $275 1/2 and hour before I made my decision, got to the site and lo and behold of course...NO refurbished left! lol

Any way got my new one home eagerly started set up and Mmmm cant seem to get it to accept a connection to my Wireless. Bugger it I so much wanted to play with it last night.

Craig I took your point regards atv flash and got that downloaded. Now all I need is to find out why I cant get the atv to connect to my network.
I will make a sep post in a moment for that. BUT if anyone right now has some ideas to throw in it would be appreciated or a Perth Members who is happy to take a phone call! Hi Craig :-)

Do you have mac address filtering setup on your wireless? if so you'll need to add the mac address of the Apple TV

Originally Posted by MissionMan

Do you have mac address filtering setup on your wireless? if so you'll need to add the mac address of the Apple TV

Just checked it again and no don't have it enabled.

You could try network cable it in the interim until you can work out what the problem is.

Good Idea Mission Man but the router and phone point is miles away from the tv point.

I did manage to find the remote button set for making the atv re set diagnose or go back to factory settings.

Did the return to factory settings and still had problem, the atv saying I had Ethernet problems.' I dont even have a cable plugged in, so why its saying that I don't know.

Have had one person tell me they could not for the life of them get there ATV to connect to the Wlan so they used the direct Ethernet got it set up and then for some reason after that the wireless worked!

So seems I either get 25 mtr of cable or somehow Drag a BIG flat screen to the router!
or go bak to the mac shop and tell em I shouldn't have to be having the problem in the first place give me another one! It has I must say taken the fun out of it all now :-(

Bloody Hell I have got it done.

After all the things i did in trying, what did it was simply changing the wireless channel number from 6 to 10 and Bingo direct connection right away :-)

Now to play :-)