- Aug 19, 2006
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I'm looking at the Western Digital EX2 drive that was reviewed on the site earlier in the week. From what I can see its nearly the perfect item for what I've been looking for recently, expanding my network storage.
My current issue is that my Time Capsule, which I thought I could use as a NAS, is too slow. Reading videos off of it often ends up in interrupted playback and because its backing up both our Macs I'm rapidly running out of free space.
In comes the EX2. Based on the review it appears to come with WD Red drives which operate at 5400rpm. The review used RE4 drives which were 7200rpm. When accessing the files over the network will the bump in speed be noticeable? Would it be worth the increased cost ($250 increased cost)?
I'm a little lost when it comes to network read/write/playback performance and drive RPM.
Thanks!
My current issue is that my Time Capsule, which I thought I could use as a NAS, is too slow. Reading videos off of it often ends up in interrupted playback and because its backing up both our Macs I'm rapidly running out of free space.
In comes the EX2. Based on the review it appears to come with WD Red drives which operate at 5400rpm. The review used RE4 drives which were 7200rpm. When accessing the files over the network will the bump in speed be noticeable? Would it be worth the increased cost ($250 increased cost)?
I'm a little lost when it comes to network read/write/playback performance and drive RPM.
Thanks!
