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Expand capacity of Apple TV

For some reasons, I haven’t made full use of my 40GB AppleTV in the last 2 years. Recently, I have more spare time to do so, and wouldlike to use it in my living room with my wide screen TV to enjoy itsfunctionality fully. It works fine to playback all the files I throw at it, but40GB is too confining for all my photos and music, not to mention my movies andother video collection. To solve this problem, once I have to make my Mac Proand iTunes running to stream all my data to the Apple TV. It seems a bit troublesome,I dislike it. So I look for a solution to expand the capacity of my Apple TV. ViaGoogle, I’ve found some useful articles talking about this issue, and Ifollowed them, and finally successfully upgrade the hard drive of the Apple TV lately.Here I’d like to document my process below, but before that, I’d like to showmy gratitude to people who I’ve got useful info from their articles, eventhough I can not remember their exactly names now. 
In summary, the process is relatively simple, a small 40GBhard drive can be freely replaced, thus becomes a DIY Apple TV.
Dismantle the Apple TV, remove the hard drive, and connectit to an Intel Mac Pro via WiebeTech Forensic DriveDock or other 2.5-inch harddrive FireWire bridge. Start the Mac, and you will see that hard drivepartition of Apple TV is structured as follows: 
/dev/disk5
#: type name size identifier 
0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk5 
1: EFI 34.0 MB disk5s1 
2: 400.0 MB disk5s2 
3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk5s3 
4: Apple_HFS Media 36.0 GB disk5s4 
400MB of space which could be used to store the systemrestore data. Extract overall image via CopyCatX, and recover them to a newhard drive which you want to change back. I found lots of people like using aWestern Digital 120GB WD1200VE hard drive. Install the new hard drive to AppleTV, and in the test, you will find the system continues to recognize only 40GBof space, because the partition information is the same with the original 40GBhard drive. But in fact, there are more than 70GB of space not being used.

Remove the new hard drive to re-connect to the Mac, andallocate the unused more than 70GB space to the Media partition with the helpof iPartition or other partitioning software. Be careful, not to change the EFIor the other 400MB partition. 

After install it back to the Apple TV, all the 107GB spacewill be recognized completely, you are done!

Now I’m able to store more photos, movies, music, and television shows on theApple TV. But when it comes to video playback, Apple TV has strict formatslimitation, it caused troubles again, and I have to convert all my videos toApple TV formats .mp4 and .mov in advance. However, this does not the mostimportant thing I’m concerned, because I have already have a video converter onmy Mac Pro, and my most intention is to watch my Blu-ray on it. Fortunately,via Google again, I get an available Blu-ray Ripper for Mac tomeet my needs, which is able to run on Mac independently as long as you have anexternal BD drive. To keep HD quality as well as compress BD size, I usuallyselect HD video as my output option. A great product, I like it. Besides this,it seems there are also another version developed for Windows user, attachedthis BD ripper here, maybeit’s your choice.
Well, by the way, Apple installed Fujitsu hard drives inoriginal, and this could be due to their relatively small power and heatconsumption, so when replacing the hard drive, you can also take this factorinto account. In addition, the replacement of the hard disk will let you lostproduct warranty, please proceed with caution.

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