Apple TV “Holy Grail” discovered – You can now use an external USB drive
Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Tom Anthony, one of the daring tech-“crusaders” over at Apple TV Hacks apparently remembered that in the Latin alphabet, Jehovah starts with an ‘I’, and has now discovered the Holy Grail of Apple TV Geeks – namely, the ability to not only use an external USB hard drive as the primary storage for Apple TV media, but also the ability to retain full syncing capabilities as well. That’s right, you can now have terabytes of (reasonably) cheap external storage for your Apple TV.
As far as Apple TV hacks go, this is in our mind not only the most useful, but perhaps also one of the more straight forward and do-able hacks out there. In order to complete the hack, you will need to have enabled ssh on your Apple TV, plus an Intel Mac running 10.4. (and an external USB hard drive, of course).
So kudos to Tom. We are now slightly closer to actually buying one of those wacky little machines. Check out the instructions here.
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