I've read where some brands of hard drives don't work as well as others and once the hard drive is installed, is there a way to add media files to it?
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I installed a 2TB Western Digital internal drive and it works just fine. You can transfer files from your main PC onto this internal drive with the supplied cable that comes with this unit. My set up works great
1104139
I installed a 2TB Western Digital internal drive and it works just fine. You can transfer files from your main PC onto this internal drive with the supplied cable that comes with this unit.My set up works great
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Couple months ago, I tried the WD Green 4TB HDD and it doesn't work. I don't know if it was the HD problem or the Plugable doesn't support it.
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Great media player, but sorry to say that you can not copy any files to the internal hard drive once you install it. The fact that you have to add the files to the hard drive before installation makes this feature pretty much useless.
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Same, except you have to do all the setup of the hard drives if you buy your own. If you buy it with the drives you can contact them about how you want it setup. If you buy it with the drives, they will install, configure, and check the drives before they ship. How they configure is up to you to contact them before they ship.
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I wouldn't be suprised if some external hard drives use the NTFS system instead of the FAT32. It's easy to reformat it though.
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Well once it is complete you can navigate to the seagate drive through finder and try to open the files to verify they are there. How it is done? I still have not gotten it to work, but seagate sent me some info because I have had trouble. Check seagate's website.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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Hi. Do you know if you can add hard drive space? Like attach an external hard drive for more space?
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Yes I have used it with a 3TB Hard drive and works fine but had to format the hard drive to be FAT32 but this seemed to be more of a problem with the particular hard drive I was using rather than the media player.
1577969
Well, a USB back up? SO you have turned it into a external hard drive? If so it most likley just needs to be configured into what you want it to do. Odd though, never had this problem with any hard drive I have ever worked with or bought.
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I do not have an answer to your problem, but with both seagate and WD drives I just attached the drive enclosure and the hard drives were recognized.
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Please make sure which kind of partition you fomatted the drive before you insert to the devices (TV, Blu-ray) support them. (exFAT, FAT,FAT32 or NTFS etc)
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I use Thumb drives and not mechanical Hard drives in my media-share. I had data on them and it was recognized. Fro that< I would assume that a Mechanical Hard Drive would react in the same manner.
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YEs, make sure that you "mount" the drive correctly first otherwise it won't work. Suggest that TRIM be enabled as well. There should be some installation videos online as well to help you get it working.
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Yes, you actually can add a hard drive. There are caveats to what you can do and you have to "hack" the unit (by adding a text file to a special folder on the drive - about the simplest hack I can think of) but it is very easy. Search for "fun_plug dns 323" on the search engine of your choice.
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Are you asking for media? Nowadays most media comes in ISO format so you can install. I suppose the only way is to use one of the USB ports that comes with it.
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It appears that the other hard drive has comparable specs. However it comes with a different firmware. Otherwise I think it is likely a matter of packaging and marketing.