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FCAV · 09-16-2014, 07:37 PM

I'm looking for a little bit of help/advice on this.

I'm looking for an external hard drive, preferably of the smaller, portable type. I'm more than okay with a 1 TB.

What I'm hoping for is one that can either hardline into my Apple Airport Extreme/Extreme (not sure which I have, size of first gen Apple TV and a few years old) to the hard drive, or connect to my wireless so that I can just drag and drop files onto it.

I'd also like to be able to hook it up directly to my blu-ray player, which has a USB connection in the front.

Basically, what I'm doing now is dumping movies on a flash drive and playing them off the blu-ray. What I'm hoping to do is have the system set up where I can just do everything wirelessly and with ease. I currently have an external that is hooked up to the Apple router, but I have no way to leave it connected and have it hooked up to the blu-ray.

Any suggestions? Does such a device exist? I've searched new routers on Best Buy and Future Shop, but for a tech-idiot like me, it doesn't help much.

(If I'm doing a horrible job explaining, feel free to try to correct me/ask questions)

09-16-2014, 07:37 PM	#1
FCAV Scoring Winger Join Date: Feb 2007 Exp:	Portable Hard Drives... I'm looking for a little bit of help/advice on this. I'm looking for an external hard drive, preferably of the smaller, portable type. I'm more than okay with a 1 TB. What I'm hoping for is one that can either hardline into my Apple Airport Extreme/Extreme (not sure which I have, size of first gen Apple TV and a few years old) to the hard drive, or connect to my wireless so that I can just drag and drop files onto it. I'd also like to be able to hook it up directly to my blu-ray player, which has a USB connection in the front. Basically, what I'm doing now is dumping movies on a flash drive and playing them off the blu-ray. What I'm hoping to do is have the system set up where I can just do everything wirelessly and with ease. I currently have an external that is hooked up to the Apple router, but I have no way to leave it connected and have it hooked up to the blu-ray. Any suggestions? Does such a device exist? I've searched new routers on Best Buy and Future Shop, but for a tech-idiot like me, it doesn't help much. (If I'm doing a horrible job explaining, feel free to try to correct me/ask questions)