How to connect 1TB HDD to an android TV box (T95Z)?

by litcheese

This may be the wrong subreddit so please direct me if theres a better one.

I have a T95Z 2GB RAM 32GB internal storage running android 7.1.2. I am trying to run a plex media server off it but obviously need to connect more storage. I have the plex server running and it works well but can't get the device to recognize a 1TB HDD plugged in by USB with an adapter.

I first plugged it in when the drive still had windows installed and it recognized one small partition. After formatting the entire drive to NTFS, I plugged it in and it didnt recognize. After some googling I realized android doesnt see NTFS but only fat32. After finially formatting the entire drive in fat32 (windows limits it so had to use another program), I plugged it in but still didnt seen it. I then realized that many systems are limited to 256GB. So I partitioned the drive into multiple 100GB partitions, one of NTFS, one of EXFAT and one of FAT32, the rest unallocated... just to see what it may see. Plugged the drive in and it didn't see any of them. More accurately it does see the drive... es file explorer says it's there but pops up and says the device "can

I'm a little lost right now. Anyone have any experience with this? I know there has to be a way!

ShawnDex

That is not a Android TV Box.

DiDgr8

You probably need to use the Linux ext4 format.

ShawnDex

NTFS can be seen by Android I have A 1TB Sata hard drive plug in via USB using a sata to USB adapter into my Nvidia Shield. The drive previously had Windows 10 was formated to NTFS and is seen on Shield and both ES Explorer see the correct size. The problem is most likely you didn't format the entire drive correctly. I did it under Windows.

painyagami

tHiS Is nOt aN AnDrOiD bOx... ... whatever.

I'm running a 4tb Seagate on my t95z Plus, just fine.

Do you have USB debugging on, by chance?

I accidentally did that once, and it wouldn't pick up anything plugged in the USB ports