[FireInMyHole]

No sign of an update here yet.

Has anyone tried a drive that exceeds Amazon's specs, such as a USS powered WD Passport 2TB?

[vjmcdonnell]

I tried a 250gb Hard Drive and no go.

[jbaconbits]

I tried a 250gb Hard Drive and no go.

Does it have a power source? The Fire TV doesn't have enough power for HDD strictly through USB.

[vjmcdonnell]

It has a power source
I'm just thinking it might be formatted as ntfs.
I'll check when I go home and if needed format to fat32

[Hitcher]

Everything you need to know about USB Storage with the Amazon Fire TV

[rodalpho]

The guy running that aftvnews.com website really does a fantastic job. Shows what you can really do when you narrow your focus to a single specific device.

Well, with the stick, two devices.

[mlu3141]

It's in since a while: http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_sett...or_Android

There also were a couple of recent threads about this if the wiki is not clear.

Is this slower like the other method?

Thanks.

EDIT: Just tried it out there's no speed difference that I can see.

EDIT 2: Had it set up wrong before and now I've got it correct it's terribly slow using this method - to the point of Kodi hanging for up to a minute at a time just navigating through the menus.

I'm having the same issue with it being so slow, it's unusable. Have you been able to get it to work any better?

[thica]

Could you please post the syntax you used in the xbmc_env.properties?

I assume the file needs to placed at the root of sdcard?

It's in since a while: http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_sett...or_Android

There also were a couple of recent threads about this if the wiki is not clear.

Is this slower like the other method?

Thanks.

EDIT: Just tried it out there's no speed difference that I can see.

EDIT 2: Had it set up wrong before and now I've got it correct it's terribly slow using this method - to the point of Kodi hanging for up to a minute at a time just navigating through the menus.

[Tinwarble]

It's in since a while: http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_sett...or_Android

There also were a couple of recent threads about this if the wiki is not clear.

Is this slower like the other method?

Thanks.

EDIT: Just tried it out there's no speed difference that I can see.

EDIT 2: Had it set up wrong before and now I've got it correct it's terribly slow using this method - to the point of Kodi hanging for up to a minute at a time just navigating through the menus.

What type of USB drive are you using?

You really need to use a USB 3.0 thumbdrive or a SSD. The read/write speeds of a normal USB 2 thumbdrive isn't fast enough and is a problem we ran into with the rooted USB mount method.

A USB 3 thumbdrive should work much better and you shouldn't notice any speed difference.

[yo_soy]

AFTVnews has put up a useful guide if you want to move some or all your Kodi data to external storage:
www.aftvnews.com/how-to-partially-or-entirely-move-kodi-data-to-external-usb-storage/

I haven't tried it myself yet.

[yabel]

Not much info on using extusb as kodi userdata storage. With the amount of thumb images I have my aftv is in need of some relief. Any updated info on moving userdata over to usb3.0 stick without crippling kodi?

[Ned Scott]

A specific guide was just posted above your post: http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-partially...b-storage/

[yabel]

I did that guide but TVaddons was gone from kodi. Kodi loaded but basic first skin with no addons showing in any folders.

[Koying]

Did you actually do "6. Copy Kodi’s files to your USB drive" or backup/restore you data?

[yabel]

I used abdfire to create and move folders over. It booted fine but once i deleted the internal kodi it would only boot kodi no extra stuff. I know the transfer was fine because the second option of moving just thumbs gave a error on boot I used teh 1st transfer to replace xml settings