I have a nice update on the WDTV Media Player.
I gave my original WDTV to my mother so I could let her watch all the shows I have recorded. But I noticed yesterday that Costco was selling the units so I decided to pick up a second one for myself.
I wanted to know however if I could use more than the two hard drives that it supported. So this morning, I plugged in a 7 port USB hub and started powering them up, one at a time. Amazingly, it didn’t have a problem with this. It simply added another layer to the folder menu where I could pick which volume I wanted to browse into.
I ended up with six USB drives all attached to a single port on the WDTV and it was working perfectly. I’m very happy! I might not need to have a PC in the living room anymore. The only downside is that you need to detach a drive to update it from a computer elsewhere.
This is very cool.