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Easy way to watch movies from an external HDD

Fisherp93
By Fisherp93
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I hope this is the right thread to put this on but basically i have a Seagate 8TB HDD that i put a load of movies on but for whatever reason my TV has a weird 2TB limit meaning no HDD over 2TB can be detected and playstation also says it is unsupported.

 

I can plug my PC to my TV but to me its not the best option i dont have wireless peripheries and frankly i hate how funny windows 10 is with switching display inputs.

 

so i was wondering if there was a cheap device i could buy that would be a use as a medium between the external drive and the TV

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Split the drive into 4 2TBs partitions?

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19 minutes ago, Fisherp93 said:

weird 2TB limit meaning no HDD over 2TB

might have something to do with MBR's limit of 2TB

or else, idk

 

i would either copy my files to smaller drives, or just connect my pc and get wireless peripherals (logitech K400+ is nice, using it right now)

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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Got some old laptop HDD?

Buy a sata to usb.

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