Questions About Media Hard Drives

i have three external hard drives, the largest is 2 TB
i load them with files from my PC
then play them on my TV using a Sony digital media player
HD give storage and portability,
the media player means i don't have to convert recorded, captured, downloaded files to DVD

i can play youtube downloads on the HDTV using the media player

Western Digital servers appear to be offline at the moment. It basically sounds like a media player with a built-in HD, versus an external USB connection or Memory Card. I'm assuming it also has network capability. Some BluRay players also have built-in HDs for similar capabilities.

In some reviews I read about the WD Elements Play device, it was mentioned that the WD TV Live Hub is a more versatile device and worth the price difference. It can do what the media drive can do plus stream content from the internet and stream content over your network.

I use a regular portable USB hard drive - two TB and plug the USB into a box that enables the hard drive to be connected to either an HDMI port or composite RCA ports on the digital TV. Roku 2 XS has this feature. I load the drive with media and it is always there in my RV when we want to watch. No computer/laptop needed. Some digital TVs already have a USB port that will support media. (Some just support photos)

I quite often have used a laptop as a video server on a tv,a 1TB hard drive can store a ton of music and movies and it doesn't take much of a laptop to do it.

Best part is unplug one cable and you are back to computing.

It will do as advertised.
It's not the first device to do this just the latest.

With my Samsung TV I can simply plugin a portable HD in the USB port.
The one you're looking at will go anywhere.

I've been using something similar for a few years now, it's outdated but does the same thing except it doesn't store the media.
Old model

Very interesting. I had never heard of such a thing, but reading about it from that page, it looks to me like just the thing for a company that doesn't own the trademark on "iPod" and/or people who refuse to buy any Apple products. I'll grant you there are no 1 TB iPods yet, who could doubt they are coming one day, given the march to larger and larger file sizes and drive sizes to accommodate?

Thank you, @Woodglue, for bringing that product to my attention. I shall follow this thread for my education as well.