One of the disadvantages, few that yes, that we can put on the Chromecast with Google TV is the low storage capacity. We only have 8 ridiculous gigs of capacity in which to install applications, add-ons and in which to store multimedia content.
An obviously rare amount that has just been a handicap that can be overcome with a little inventiveness and without spending a single euro. We just have to look in the garbage drawer that we have at home. This place where we keep USB keys, memory cards, connectors … It is the solution to have almost unlimited gigabytes and gigabytes on the Chromecast.
From 8GB to infinity … or almost
This is what I used to expand the storage
The objective is increase the storage capacity we have on the Chromecast with Google TV. As a cooking recipe we will need a Chromecast with Google TV (obviously), a memory card or a USB stick and a HUB with power input, USB output (it doesn’t matter if it’s USB type A, B or C) and input for memory cards or USB to connect the USB key.
With all these ingredients we connect the power of the Chromecast to the HUB that we have just searched and in which we have previously connected the USB stick or memory card. From the HUB, we take a cable to the Chromecast which will be the one that will transmit the current and the data. We check that the Chromecast turns on correctly and we continue.
Once inside the main screen we are looking for our profile icon, top right and click on it. This is to access the options of the “System”
We will see several options but we are looking “Settings”, which appears in the left area of the new panel.
In the right area there is a panel in which we will see next to the internal storage the one offered by the unit we just added, in this case 32 GB via memory card.
If we click on this section, we will see how two options appear: “Expel” and “Erase and format as device storage”. It is on this option that we are going to click.
We will have to take into account that all the data we have stored in the unit will be erased. The objective of this system is create a whole, a memory that expands the 8 GB we already have. From there we can move the data from the internal memory to the new memory that we have installed if we click on “Migrate data to this storage”.
These are the steps we must take if we are to use the two memories as if they were one. If, on the other hand, we only want to use a memory in which to add media content to play from the Chromecast, we can skip the last steps, as it will not be necessary to format the device.
It will be enough to enter an application like the file explorer and we will see the unit we just installed and from there we can read the data we are interested in.
