Early Fire TV sticks were bemoaned for having to delete apps to make room for a party game like JackBox, and even early Android TV boxes were strapped for storage outside the original NVIDIA Shield TV. The worst part is that Google could have learned from its competitors' mistakes and victories. Adding on a hard drive lets the Google TV access local media when the network is down, but the storage wonk on the Chromecast with Google TV's permissions setup makes writing to external storage exceedingly difficult.
You could technically expand your storage using a USB-C hub, a Power Delivery charger to provide more juice, and either a microSD card or an external drive, but the reality is that it just won't get you the space for apps that you need. However, going with only 8GB of internal storage - over half of which is taken up by the system itself - is a short-sighted solution, one that can't be fixed with an update. In order to hit that oh-so-importable $50 price point, Google had to make compromises somewhere with the Chromecast with Google TV. And once you actually start watching content on your Chromecast with Google TV, cached files easily fill the rest, even if you don't install any games or fitness apps. They used to take 3.8GB of storage before Twitch finally got its act together and slimmed down its Google TV app from 900MB to 200MB. Those 14 apps take up over 3GB of the 4.4GB of space available after the Google TV operating system is installed. Thankfully, I'd cleared out the cache again recently enough for this update to install, but that "oh, here we go again" shouldn't be your first instinct when your device gets a new update.įor the vast majority of my time with the Chromecast with the Google TV, the internal storage has been completely full with only the following apps installed: After all, I'd had to delete four apps and clean out the cache just to install three measly app updates this summer. I went into Settings to install it, wondering how many apps I'd have to delete to get enough space for the download this time. This morning, the December update for the Google TV arrived on my Chromecast.
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