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2016-01-10, 02:20
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-10, 04:48 by ByteCode.)
Hi, im looking for a Kodi for my parents and I want to provide them a player with HDD full of movies/tv.
Has anybody seen a Kodi player that fits an internal 3.5" HDD ? I would ideally like to keep everything in the one box, on/off power, simple.
The alternative is obviously a USB HDD enclosure and separate Kodi player, or a full PC, I really want to avoid them having to understand connecting and powering on/off multiple devices if possible.
Also, enclosure hdd power bricks are prone to dying in my experience and i'd really like to avoid that route.
Thanks
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whatever you do, I would suggest you go SSD if you going for internal.
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2016-01-31, 05:14
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-31, 05:16 by ByteCode.)
Wow it seems really hard to get a response to my actual question. I have a 6tb drive I want to put in a kodi box. The 2.5" drive responses really are not helpful.
I guess an external usb drive case is looking more and more like the only option. Either that or a full blown PC. I am surprised no manufacturer has a kodi box that takes a full sized drive, though.
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As you may have noticed, manufacturers have downsized in recent years. Small footprint Intel NUC's, RPI's and tiny Android devices.
A whole bunch of us run NAS's on a home Network to plug in 3.5" HDD. We don't want a large, noisy, power guzzzling box sitting next to our TV's.
You are swimming against the tide trying to put a 3.5" HDD in a small elegant media player case.
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I've been trying to get my parents set up with something they can understand and operate for about ten years. It hasn't happened yet. Yeah, I get what you mean about the two buttons. Sounds like a computer is your best option. People have been throwing surplus sff computers at me lately. The newer ones aren't too ugly. If your parents are old, they probably won't be bothered by the noise. If they only turn it on when they use it (and it sounds like that's the plan), power consumption won't be a big issue. As others have said, go with Openelec for that appliance feel.
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The Asus VM42 takes a 3.5" drive, but their specs say "500GB up to 1TB". See them sold with a 500GB drive installed, so I don't know if that means they also have a 1TB model or if there's some technical limitation that would keep HDs to 1TB. Other than that, I think you'd have to go up to something mini-itx sized.
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2016-01-31, 09:28
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Has their router got a USB port could you plug the 6tb drive into that which would work as a nas drive then use a pi2 or any other small device to read the HDD from the network
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I have a NAS myself but setting one up for parents is simply out of the question.
The Wetek Core seems like the better option because I know it will just work,
If I go down the USFF PC route then I have to worry about infrared remote problems. You would think it will just work but that is never the case.
Last week they managed to factory wipe their laptop by accident, and I thought that thing was foolproof. It proves nothing is simple when you get old.
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I have a Mede8er med800x3d which uses RTD1186 processor but has internal SATA up to many TB.
It is noiseless, easy, relatively small and beautiful but I need more flexibility in terms of Streaming so Kodi is the only choice.
Any device with 3.5" SATA yet ?
