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Mac storage question

midwestfisherman

midwestfisherman

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I have a Mac Mini w/ a 320GB hard drive, I was wondering how it would work if I move my music and movie files to an external HD and totally off of the Mini's drive. I'm worried about any lag when streaming music and/or movies to other devices i the house.
 
What kind of wireless network do you have?

Music will be fine guaranteed. You can stream 720p on wireless-g, depending on the bitrate. Wireless-n will definitely handle 720p. If you have a 5 GHz dual band wireless n (wireless a now?) you can probably do 1080p.
 
What kind of external connection? Streaming over wireless will depend on the source file. I stream 1080P over wireless but it is encoded for the purpose and a reasonable bitrate, your not going to be streaming BR rips over wireless.
 
midwestfisherman said:
I have a Mac Mini w/ a 320GB hard drive, I was wondering how it would work if I move my music and movie files to an external HD and totally off of the Mini's drive. I'm worried about any lag when streaming music and/or movies to other devices i the house.
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Are you talking about using the external drives on a network device or via USB directly to the Mini (then out to the network)?

I have the former for my backup drives and latter for my iTunes and iPhoto (on my Mini).

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
You should not see any lag. I have not.

MotionMan
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Seconded. I would recommend spending a couple extra dollars for a FireWire interface in addition to the USB. Better sustained reads, especially when accessing multiple things (reading/writing at the same time).
 
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