I’m not sure this is true. I have both a Linksys Velop router, that has a USB-A port that will support an external USB drive and an AT&T Internet Gateway that also has a USB-A port that will support an external drive.
- Brad - On Aug 5, 2024, at 15:41, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: No, using a router is not sufficient unless it happens to be one of the airport from Apple. T that’s supported external drives. These are hard to find these days. Generally you need a network attached storage or NAS to do this. Sonoligy is one of the big names and doing this, but they are fairly expensive too. You might have better luck getting an inexpensive Linux box and running it as an NFS server. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 5, 2024, at 3:37 PM, 'Andrew' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/ABE3AF97-2C38-4875-BD3C-3CB53680E884%40gmail.com. -- 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/93A40FC1-345B-4896-ABD3-0DF2068351F6%40swbell.net.
