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Hi All
First of all, as this is my first post, my name is David and starting to get into the whole mac world. Currently I have a couple of ipod touchs, an iphone 3gs and an "old" atv.
The blessing and curse with the old atv is the built in hdd. This is great until it gets full. Since I dont want to leave my windows pc running all the time and tie up bandwidth through streaming I am looking for a different solution.
1.) Attach an external hdd to the atv, although according to mac the usb port is only for service purposes.
2.) buy a mac mini server which I could network directly with the atv, have running all the time and also have some additional server advantages.
3.)open for suggestions
Basically I have set myself some conditions that must be met:
1.)I need nearly unlimited hdd space directly or indirectly attached to atv without wireless streaming (ie. the mac mini server would "hard wired" to the atv)
2.)If possible I would like to store my entire dvd library (about 300 dvd) in a format that can be imported into itunes or at least played by atv.
Right now I am favouring the mac mini server solution, but havent found any statements by people who have actually done this and how well it works.
So I am open for suggestion from all you guys and gals here!
regards
David
First of all, as this is my first post, my name is David and starting to get into the whole mac world. Currently I have a couple of ipod touchs, an iphone 3gs and an "old" atv.
The blessing and curse with the old atv is the built in hdd. This is great until it gets full. Since I dont want to leave my windows pc running all the time and tie up bandwidth through streaming I am looking for a different solution.
1.) Attach an external hdd to the atv, although according to mac the usb port is only for service purposes.
2.) buy a mac mini server which I could network directly with the atv, have running all the time and also have some additional server advantages.
3.)open for suggestions
Basically I have set myself some conditions that must be met:
1.)I need nearly unlimited hdd space directly or indirectly attached to atv without wireless streaming (ie. the mac mini server would "hard wired" to the atv)
2.)If possible I would like to store my entire dvd library (about 300 dvd) in a format that can be imported into itunes or at least played by atv.
Right now I am favouring the mac mini server solution, but havent found any statements by people who have actually done this and how well it works.
So I am open for suggestion from all you guys and gals here!
regards
David