Dear List, I need some serious help here, and I appreciate it requires your input which may take some time. I’ve tried to do research on this but I may not be knowledgeable enough to understand how to accomplish this.
I’d like to place my entire media library on an external drive and attach it to my router. I have several macs on the network but they do not have enough hard drive capacity nor are they on al,all the time so I thought in order to be able to play my media on Apple tv 4th gen I would better put my media on an external drive on the network which would then be always accessible. My questions are: 1. Is this possible? 2. What external drive do I choose? I have a 2 TB drive I bought several years ago and it has a spinning drive, not SSD with usb connection which I could attach to my router’s USB port. But how will it perform? 3. Do I get a new SSD drive in which case what connection I choose. In a way, I’d rather not because of a possible huge cost. 4. If I connect an external drive via USB port to my router, how do I then transfer my media library onto it and more importantly how do I point my Apple tv to it. I am very much out of my depth here and I’m humbly asking those of you with so much knowhow to give me step by step instructions if you can. It’s a big ask, I understand, hence I’ve hesitate to ask. Andrew -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/0863C050-CF4B-4F7A-AA8D-3157740E3B24%40me.com.
