Dave Horvath
30 Jul 2007 10:05
The group over at AppleTVhacks.net in conjuction with FatWallet.com offered up a prize for anyone who could effectively hack the AppleTV software to allow the use of an external USB hard drive as its main storage. This hack would then allow users to have much more storage without the need to crack open the AppleTV device itself.
Armed with the 1.0 version of the AppleTV software, an Intel based Macintosh computer or Intel based Linux machine, an external hard drive and a little gusto, users can follow instructions on how to enable an external HDD as the primary source for storage. Since Apple is constantly on the verge of not giving an easy method for copyright infringement, its easy to see why a feature such as this wasn't enabled from the start.
Source:
AppleTVHacks.net