While this seems like a simple solution, in our testing, we’ve found that many USB-C hubs - but not all - won’t work with the Chromecast unless you use a higher output USB-PD power brick than what comes bundled with the Chromecast. And since there’s only a single USB-C port on the Chromecast with Google TV, the only way to expand the storage is to use a USB-C hub with power passthrough to add an SD card slot. Consider deleting apps or content you no longer need and try again.īut that’s just the problem there isn’t much that I “no longer need,” meaning there’s nothing to delete. This device doesn’t have enough space to download “NVIDIA GeForce NOW”. Just today, I tried to install the latest update to GeForce NOW but was instead greeted with an unwelcome error message: Now, I don’t consider myself an Android TV power user, but I do have a suite of game and video streaming service apps installed on my Chromecast:īetween these and a few small apps I use for work to copy files from my phone to the TV and vice versa, there is essentially no storage space left on my Chromecast with Google TV. This isn’t necessarily a problem on its own, but when coupled with the fact that there’s only a single USB-C port on the Chromecast with Google TV, which is used to power the device, and no microSD card slot, you’re all but locked in at 8GB. No doubt in an effort to keep costs down, last year’s Chromecast with Google TV only ships with a paltry 8GB of storage, nearly half of which is taken up by Google TV itself.

Google’s decision to only include a severely limited amount of storage in the Chromecast with Google TV is already standing in the way of updating my apps.

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