Thanks for input. NAS is not totally out of the question, but it’s just more convenient and simple to use small, high capacity USB drives directly connected. We have three WDTV Live boxes, and sometimes take them on the road. It’s real convenient to rip our DVD library to a single hard drive, especially since the WD box can read and display full menus.
So I bought a 3TB Seagate USB drive at Costco yesterday, per tech support saying 3TB was the limit. Result: will NOT read the drive. Then tried a 2TB Seagate: WORKS.
There are plenty of posts saying they are using 3, 4 and 5TB drives with the WD box. My Hitachi 3TB (plug adapter powered) works. Possible there is new technology in the Seagate drives which is no longer compatible with the aging WD boxes.
We’d like to have a box that can read ISO/VOB files. Roku apparently doesn’t plus going that route means converting the DVDs to MP4, which is a lot of work. Is there a current box that will read ISO/VOB files and connect to large, self-powered USB drives?
