On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 20:19:18 Greenwich Mean Time Wol wrote: > On 25/02/2025 15:04, Rich Freeman wrote: > > That said, there is nothing "wrong" with buying M.2 drives just to use > > them exclusively USB3 enclosures. I just think you're paying a big > > premium for something that isn't really much better than a thumb > > drive. > > Until you get a TV like ours, that DEMANDS a disk drive to hang off its > USB. I tried sticking a USB3 stick in, and it refused. Hang a bare > laptop HDD off it, and it's quite happy. > > So I'm hoping a M2 in an enclosure will keep it happy ... > > (Of course, every other TV I've ever had is perfectly happen with just a > USB stick!) > > Cheers, > Wol
Some 'smart' TVs won't use a USB drive unless and until they've formatted it first. I've attached a 3" drive in a USB 3.0 docking station and it worked fine *after* it was formatted. Then it wouldn't unmount it, even after I had shutdown the TV. I can't recall what fs format it had used.
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