START HERE - Pick the Right Kodi Box (updated Dec 2020)
(2017-05-11, 05:34)wrxtasy Wrote: No not really.

Properly engineered Android Boxes like you get from Amazon, nVIDIA, Xiaomi, WeTek and MINIX, Himedia etc come with decent power supplies - enough to power a single 2.5" HDD with reliability. Even the RPi's have proper official power supplies have no issues.

Otherwise you need to use externally powered 3.5" drives or 2.5" ones connected to a powered USB Hub for reliability.
This is common with all low powered, mobile ARM chipset based boxes - RPi's - AMLogic etc.

The Android OS itself has other problems of Multiple drive mounting issues, as detailed HERE

These are some of the reasons why Android should be avoided if you want a relatively fuss free Kodi media player device. Try and demand too much and you will encounter issues. LibreELEC / OSMC, being Linux based has no issues with Multiple directly attached HDD's.

I call these multiple HDD mounting problems - Android annoyingly getting in the way of Kodi.
Thanks a lot, yeah that's what I was afraid of that, as the nVidia Shield or the other well supported Android boxes seem like the boxes for me to get except for my requirement of multiple hdds
Appreciate the response!


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