I think that if you have the technical ability to change the internal drive to something it was not designed for then you should have the ability to open the case.
Opening the Hub appeals to me, too. I want to swap the internal 1 TB for a larger drive. I am interested in what you find out. Also, has anyone tried to hook more than two external drives via a USB hub? The user manual says it doesn’t work, but I haven’t tried this.
By the way, I’m not that disappointed with the GB network performance. Are you wanting to use the HUB for file transfers daily?
Opening the Hub appeals to me, too. I want to swap the internal 1 TB for a larger drive. I am interested in what you find out. Also, has anyone tried to hook more than two external drives via a USB hub? The user manual says it doesn’t work, but I haven’t tried this.
By the way, I’m not that disappointed with the GB network performance. Are you wanting to use the HUB for file transfers daily?
If you want to have a look inside then go to this page:
This is only 2 GB. I have to ask what is the point?
If you’re streaming all of your media, it can make sense to use something like this as a local store for anything the player needs to cache - databases, thumbnails, etc.
However, something I’ll mention regarding these DOM devices: they are slow (though I’ll concede that in a Hub you probably wouldn’t notice), not particularly cheap per gigabyte, and their MTBF numbers aren’t very impressive either. I looked into these a few months ago, and came to the conclusion that you could buy an unused SSD with considerably better performance and more storage capacity for around the same price; for what this specific one is selling for, I got a 16GB Samsung SATA SSD. Makes a great NAS boot drive and local database store.
You’d probably do quite fine with just a few GB… My hub has only about 15 Mbytes of generated data on it… But I don’t know what is in the hidden partitions.
The hub is not designed to be openned by us mere humans. It has a click lid so if you slide a knife into the joint along the side it snaps open. Can be hard the first time.