Modding an ATV1 - SATA HDD

Thanks :slight_smile:

The end of July was my target date as Iā€™m catching up with my parents & brother next weekend, so was aiming to have it ready to hand over then. Touch-wood the installation process wasnā€™t as hard as I was anticipating (not a fan of power tools), so hopefully it will boot up and be ready to hand over in a few days.

Iā€™m already anticipating the idea of setting up the ā€œspareā€ ATV1 as well, so my (other) brother will have a back-up if requiredā€¦

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Boots up. Looking good. :slight_smile:

CODAā€¦

The project failed. Stopped working after just a few days. There was a black heat line on the protective tape around the SATA adapter board, so Iā€™m guessing the $couple of dollar part that I used from China wasnā€™t cut out for the job.

In the end, I picked up an ATV2 from @PO15KA, hacked it to run Infuse, and copied the driveā€™s media over to an external drive, thatā€™s now connected to my dadā€™s iMac.

My brother has taken to the change quite well, no major dramas! :slight_smile:

I reclaimed the ATV1ā€¦ but am thinking itā€™s useful life is over now.

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