What WD product is best to expand my WD TV Live Hub's storage capacity?
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Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
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I lost my "mini to composite A/V splitter cable", does anyone know where I can buy one which works with the WD?Thanks!
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Buy a hard drive with a LAN port built into it. Western digital makes several at decent rates. Also do a search for "LAN external hard drive"
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We also bought a Samsung Slim extermal CD/DVD/RW drive ($20) to go with it. Works great!
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I have had ATA Seagate drives in the past that were fine; I'm very happy with the WD Blue, but I would go with the best price.
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Definitely. I could easily backing up all my HD with 125 GB of data files, just following the default settings for the WD SmartWare backup.
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The software is not very good, how the files are displayed on the TV is not very good either. The software locks up if you have too many shared folders or too many files. Fast forward does not appear to work. I live with the limitations because I don't have to buy a media server just yet. Check Sagetv for a real media streamer, i hear they work well.No NAS yet, but a usb external disk should work just like a usb flash drive.Like Raybert says, it's not ready. But it is free.
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I use a WD portable drive and it works well with this USB hub. (I did not try with more than one external drives.)
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Absolutely and that is one of the features that made me buy it. It also is able to support a very wide range of media and codecs which is probably the best reason to buy it. I run a Seagate 1.5 TB Backup plus USB portable drive as the main storage for my WD player. When you first plug in the drive it takes a long time for it to initialize so be patient if you have alot of media to sort through. The price is really great with the functionality of the system overall.
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Just add an external SATA drive using provided connector on back panel. Manual does not specify maximum size and generation (II - III) of SATA drive which may be used. Contact DTV technical support to confirm spec details for external drive for HR-24 DVR receiver.
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Save your money and try the Synology DiskStation 2-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage DS212j (White) It is more for home use. It is also DLNA certified. Product website: http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS212j〈=us. Also, save your money and don't get the Western Digital Red NAS Drives. Use the WD Green drives instead.
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Just a note that MKV is no longer supported. You should get a WD TV Live or use Plex Media Server. I think WD TV Live is much better this generation. Last generation, the support wasn't much more than a really outdated Netflix client. It now supports Netflix, Hulu Plus, YouTube, CinemaNow, Blockbuster, Spotify, FaceBook, Pandora and more. Sure you lose Amazon, but CinemaNow and Blockbuster are good compensation along with the fact that it will basically play all of your videos files.
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As someone mentioned, WD Purple is specifically designed for your exact purpose. As far as brands go, I have found WD to be extremely reliable.Search this one on Amazon if you still need a hard drive. At the moment a 2TB WD Purple is also under $100:WD 2 TB WD Purple SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive 2 sata_6_0_gb 64 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare or OEM Drives WD20PURX
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upport for live TV viewing was added to the WD Live TV and the WD Live TV Hub with the latest firmware update (1.12.14). More info on that update can be found on the WD website.To watch live TV on the WD TV, users need to plug in a USV TV tuner adapter from Hauppauge. Officially, only two models are supported - but I found that the Boxee live TV dongle works as well.
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I used WD Black 4TB HDD, it works great for both USB 3.0 and eSATA, but need update Intel Rapid Storage Technology to using eSATA, I did not tried 6TB.
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It should. Hub is a 3.0 and also handles 2.0. Mine is a 1 tb wd. It works great.
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I have tried it on the old diskless WD TV Live - which is not quite the same as your particular WD model, I know - but this Beklin wireless adapter did not really function properly with my WD box. The Linksys WUSB600N worked straight out of the box, however, with pretty good results (though I did need to use a USB extension cable to move it about 6 feet closer to the wireless router to fix reliability issues).