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Firestick 4k - Store userdata on NAS or USB drive? - michaeljc70 - 2019-11-07
Due to the size of my library, I am really pushing up against the storage limits on my Firestick. My question is 1) can I move the userdata to a NAS or USB drive connected via OTG cable and 2) How will it affect the performance? I imagine the USB would be much faster than the NAS.
RE: Firestick 4k - Store userdata on NAS or USB drive? - bigbrain28 - 2020-09-19
(2019-11-07, 18:22)michaeljc70 Wrote: Due to the size of my library, I am really pushing up against the storage limits on my Firestick. My question is 1) can I move the userdata to a NAS or USB drive connected via OTG cable and 2) How will it affect the performance? I imagine the USB would be much faster than the NAS.
I am here looking for an answer to a similar (or maybe the same?) question. I too was running out of space on the Firestick 4K with Kodi and its DB/thumbnails (I assume) taking up over 2GB of space. I have an OTG hub/ethernet/power adapter and successfully expanded storage with a 128GB flash drive. I then moved Kodi to that drive (everything works great, went smoothly), however, Despite 'Kodi' - the app - having moved to the extended storage, it seems the data did not - I still have the 2GB of space taken up on the internal storage.
So my question is: (as yours) Can I move that data, and how - OR, will clearing the data and cache, and rescraping cause the data to write to the location of the app install? If I have to leave my ever-growing DB on the internal, then I have wasted the effort in adding internal space via the flash drive.