Upgrade again…

Well in the past, I have hacked an Xbox to run a larger drive, and a Netbook to run Mac OS X.  The last thing I have been working on is upgrading the AppleTV to a larger drive.  The largest drive it ships with is the 160GB drive.  I filled that up quite nicely already.  So the quest was out to find a solution.

Most of the sites around the net state that the drive is a IDE (PATA) laptop (2.5) drive.  Sure enough it is.  The largest drive that is available is a 320GB unit.  Not easy to find.  I was able to find it through my supplier at the office, so I got one in.  I fought with it for many a night, backing up the existing 160GB drive, and restoring it to the 320GB unit.  I did it about 8 times, and finally on Saturday afternoon it took!  The drive is wiped at the end of this, which is fine, since it sync’s to my Itunes server anyhow.  I set it to sync overnight and everything is working great.

Inside the AppleTV:

Final Result:

Upgraded AppleTV Drive