Filed under: Hardware, Mods, Apple TV
SSD-equipped AppleTV
It's June, you're bored, and you're looking at that 40GB AppleTV sitting on your media center. The next thing you know, you've bought a solid-state drive (SSD) and created the world's first (as far as we know) SSD-equipped Apple TV.Josh Lee modded his original AppleTV not to increase the size of the drive -- he's using a 32GB Transcend SSD since he stores most of his media on NAS -- or speed it up. In fact, it sounds like he did the mod just for the hell of it. The benefits of the mod include less heat generation by the AppleTV and almost silent operation.
Josh reports in his email to AppleTVHacks that all he had to do was take an image of his AppleTV drive, mount it, resize the media partition, DD the image to the SSD , do a factory restore, use the patch2stick, and the SSD was quickly up and running. Whew!
Your challenge, TUAW reader, is to nab one of those fast 256GB Samsung SSD's when they ship this fall and use the Josh Lee method to create a fast, cool, and silent FrankenAppleTV. If you're the first, tell us about it.
A big thank you to Luck for the pointer to AppleTVHacks
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Galley said 8:35AM on 6-14-2008
I would like to see Apple come out with a 32GB Apple TV for the car. If it were flash-based, it could be much smaller. Someone suggested a 32GB iPod touch, but the beauty of the Apple TV is that it would automatically synch when I pull into my driveway. Not being hard drive-based would be best in a hot (and bumpy) environment like a car.
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Tyler Loch said 11:19AM on 6-14-2008
I've had an Apple TV running Mac OS X Server off a CompactFlash card for about 8 months now.
It does DNS, DHCP, Apache, and I have it sort my .Mac account's mail so everything's always in the right place wherever/whenever I check my mail.
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Paul said 11:34AM on 6-14-2008
So the 40GB Apple TV costs $224 (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000MQNMQ6/pasbl01-20/) and you put in a 32GB SSD that costs how much?
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robogobo said 8:38PM on 6-14-2008
wow, another pointless TUAW entry.
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Fernando said 11:41AM on 6-15-2008
I want to see a mod that let it play matroska 720p with no performance issue. CPU/GPU overclocking?
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