At last someone has educate a patch to expatiate the Apple TV ’s storage through its USB 2.0 larboard , using the interior hard effort to boot andone fatexternal2 TB driveto backlog as many TV series , photos and porn movies as you want . Yes , Cupertino , resistance to hackersisfutile , I ’m afraid . The process is not unmanageable , as you will see after the jump .
https://gizmodo.com/lacie-big-disk-extreme-hits-2tb-280559
For this formula you will need onessh - enabled Apple TV , one sightly clobber Intel Mac or Intel - base Linux / Unix system , one installed version of Mac OS X 10.4 Intel , one unclouded , “ original , unmodified copy of the ‘ mach_kernel.prelink ’ file from the Apple TV , ” one external USB drive , generous amount of sightly peppered raw braveness and a liberal quantity of cool sherry .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-hacked-to-run-xvid-divx-to-follow-246588
For cookery , first format the external USB driving force as Journaled HFS+ in Mac OS X and pull up stakes it apart . You wo n’t need it until the end .
Runthe scriptand back up your Apple TV using the admit instructions . Now booze some sherry . After five minutes the Apple TV will bring up . Turn it on again without link the USB cause until the flying - TV - sieve foundation sequence finishes . When you connect the USB the content from the interior driving will be copied to the external one . That ’s why the chef for this recipe , Patrick Walton of University of Chicago and Tom Anthony from Apple tv set Hacks , urge you to “ wipe off the content of your internal hard driveway first so that there is no need to copy the content . ” Finish the sherry or pour yourself another glass .
The Apple TV will restart automatically after the depicted object is copy and from that detail on the USB disk will be used as substance memory board . Unfortunately this will leave the internal drive empty save for the operating organization – but , quite frankly , who care when you are pass away to end up with a 2 TB Apple TV , specially after all that chilled sherry ?
If you think the unconscious process to enable what should have been a feature since the beginning is not for the faint - hearted , hopefully someone will release a graphic patcher soon . Otherwise , go for it carefully and relish . [ Apple telly hack ]
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