The HDDs themselves will make the noise not the caddys.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:09, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

Also do you have a media player attached to the TV already or will the "caddy" have to have that built in.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:11, Reply)

No, Im' just going to attach it with a USB cord, I don't need a media player.

( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:12, Reply)

What media player do you use and how is it connected to your network if at all

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:14, Reply)

I don't use a media player
my TV can read .avi and .mkv and .mp4 files off a memory stick or external hard drive when connected via a USB cable.

So I'm gonna back up all my films onto a hard drive, connect it to the telly, and voila, watching films.

But I need to put the hard drive in a caddy to power it and give it USB connectivity.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:18, Reply)

Oh right. these are pretty cool
www.ebuyer.com/319953-startech-hard-drive-docking-station-satdock2u3gb
(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:22, Reply)

Hmmm, actually that is pretty cool
The only problem is that on the occasions I want to add things to one of the hard drives I'd have to move the whole thing over to my computer.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:24, Reply)

You'll have to do that anyway unless you get a NAS with a media player attachment.
Does your TV only accept USB or does it have an ethernet port?
(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:26, Reply)

It does have ethernet, but as I was saying to GOnz I'm not gonna be running cables from my router to anything on the other side of the fireplace.

( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:31, Reply)

If you can't run a cable, then you'll have to move the caddy to copy stuff.
Or get a caddy with wireless built in but they're shit on the whole.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:33, Reply)

What Gonz suggested is probably the best option for me at this stage.
But I'll think about getting a NAS or something if we ever move and get somewhere with carpets where I can hide cables.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:34, Reply)

True, that's the simplist solution so far.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:38, Reply)

Especially since a 500GB drive will happily contain pretty much everything I've ever downloaded.
And I'm gonna have 2.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:40, Reply)

If you want to lend me one, I can completely fill it up with movies/telly.
I got shitloads of stuff, just drop it off with me for a week and I'll leave it copy'n'pasting on my media pc. Just give me a ballpark of what kind of thing you like.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 17:06, Reply)

Trouble with that one is (a) it'll look ugly for a livingroom, and (b) the telly itself might not be able to see both hard drives like a normal computer.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:31, Reply)

Two of these and doing the hot-swap thing I said down there would be a good sollution... its not like you'd ever use more than one HD at a time anyway.
www.ebuyer.com/149272-extra-value-hard-drive-enclosure-black-sub3zw
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:32, Reply)

Sweet, your plan sounds ideal to me.
Thanks Gonz.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:33, Reply)

My pleasure =)
Just to make sure first though, they are desktop hard drives ain't they?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:42, Reply)

yes, 3.5 inch SATA drives

( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:50, Reply)

Sweet, two of those puppies should do you good.
The light can be annoyingly bright if you've turned the lights off, so a bit of tape to diffuse the light would do the trick.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:59, Reply)

I think it'll look cool.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:32, Reply)