Small hard disks

I want to archive my music and videos on apple tv and connect them to my hifi system and TV through optical, but how come your hard drives are so small, just 160 gb! it's. just half of my music collection only!
APPLE, what's your product policy? time capsule: 1TB, apple tv 160GB!!!!!

AppleTV is not an archival/backup solution - important to be aware of this.
There is no official way for you to copy music/video back from the AppleTv once you've transferred it there via iTunes. (apart from direct AppleTv purchases that sync back to iTunes to allow backup).
The 40GB model is 2 yeas old and the 160GB model over 18 months old.
Small hard drives were available in much smaller capacities back then, but if you want all your music/video on one even the 160Gb looks a bit small now.
In addition AppleTv is effectively controlled by iTunes and you can't manually move stuff onto it - content synced to it has to exist in an iTunes library so the bigger your library, the more storage you'd need for iTunes as well as AppleTV. Simply deleting from iTunes once transferred would cause AppleTv do delete content too as it a 'sync' model.
The other option which many of us use is to stream most content - this requires itunes running but then you can store unlimited content on external drives, either by holding the iTunes library there or setting itunes just to hold a reference to where a media file lives rather than copying it.
While larger drives in AppleTv would make some sense you'd then need larger primary storage for iTunes too. Personally I think i prefer to have external drives and separate backups rather than all my media on AppleTv because it cannot be retrieved from there without hacking.
Send feedback here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
AC

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