AppleTV Upgrade Kits from Weaknees

One of the first AppleTV hacks to surface was a hard drive upgrade. With the tiny 40Gb drive, I quickly ran out of space and considered doing it myself. A 160Gb drive from newegg.com runs about $100-120 and it looks like it'd take a few hours to do it yourself. I've been looking for an upgrade kit and was pleased to see that Weaknees, the TiVo upgrade people, are selling a pre-formatted 160Gb drive for $199 that is a drop-in install.

I placed an order for one this morning and I'll share some photos of the install and my experiences with it sometime next week. It'll be nice to have room for instant access to every photo I've taken in the past five years, every song, movie, TV show, and podcast I've downloaded.

Comments

[Tom Clancy]

Is it just not realistic to stream music and photos from other Macs? I've been tempted by this thing (especially after downloading TVShows), but all I can see is:

1. Rework wireless network to start taking advantage of N, then find out Apple's implementation is non-standard and nothing works with it
2. Immediately run into storage problems
3. Frustrate self while waiting for 40 minutes for 30 minute show to transfer

[Matt Haughey]

The streaming works for me currently, but access is faster (no buffering, no loading lists from streaming sources delay) if you stuff everything on the hard drive. With a 160Gb drive, I'll have room for everything in my library, so it'll be easy to just sync it all and not have to worry about keeping my iTunes open all the time on my streaming computer.

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