![]() Any previous firmwares (1.01.xx through 1.04.xx) will behave identically to your current WDTV HD. So, if you upgrade the WDTV Live firmware to the current 1.05.04, it will recognize (and be able to use) your 3TB Seagate. But the issue is fixed on the latest firmwares. Getting a WDTV Live (or Live Plus or Live Hub) won’t fix the issues out of the box. Once you’ve done that, the WDTV shouldn’t have any problems using the drive, whether it’s USB2 or USB3. I think with 1TB and 1.5TB drives this normally isn’t an issue and they “just work” because theu ship as MBR, but I think most 2TB drives ship as GPT, so the first thing you’d have to do when you got the 2TB drive out of the box would be hook it up to your PC and re-format it as MBR. The only things that matter should be the drive size and partition table type.Īs far as I know, even a 1TB USB2 drive won’t work if it’s GPT… it will only work if it is formatted MBR. It shouldn’t matter if the drive’s USB3… it should work in USB2 mode. The newest firmwares for the Live/Live Plus and Live Hub all address the problem, and work with larger drives, but any earlier firmwares for the newer WDTV devices also have the 2TB/MBR cap, since all the firmwares were written before large drives ever started hitting store shelves. And a Gen1 update simply won’t ever see the light of day since the device is officially End-Of-Life. ![]() I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for one. There has been no word on a Gen2 update to fix the 2TB/MBR cap. Otherwise, if it needs re-formatting and you’ve spent days filling the 2TB, you’re going to be rather annoyed at having to re-format and start all over. ![]() When you get your new drive, I’d strongly suggest re-formatting it as MBR and connecting it to the WDTV as a recognition test, before filling it. Sure, sticking to USB 2.0 should assure compatability, but USB 3.0 shouldn’t cause issues that I’m aware of.īut, even if the drive is 2TB or less, I believe the WDTV won’t accept it if it’s formatted as GPT. The drive should just detect that the WDTV only has a USB 2.0 port and should degrade itself down to USB 2.0 specs.Īs long as you stick to drives 2 TB and under (and make sure the drive is formatted as MBR and not GPT), anything “should” work. I don’t have any 3.0 drives myself to test with, but as far as I know, that shouldn’t be an issue. I have updated the firmware on the WDTV device to the latest available.Īny ideas and working suggestions will be highly appreciated. This is a headache because it basically involves moving required content between drives in order to watch it, whereas the higher capacity device has simply become a straightforward storage device unable to be detected through the WD TV device. So far the only solution has been to move media content BACK to the previous working HDD and watch them from there. The only thing that has changed is the USB3.0 capability (even though it is USB2.0 backwards compatible.Īny ideas on updates etc that may fix the problem. I recently acquired a Seagate USB3.0 device for increased capacity but the WD TV box fails to detect it, listing it as an unsupported device. ![]() ![]() Previously attached USB devices were, WD MyBook and ancient Maxtor HDD. I have a WD TV HD media player which has worked fine for the last 3 years or so with attached USB devices for my stored media content. ![]()
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