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Would something like a WD My Book Essential 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive be fast enough to stream 1080p content to a HTPC for some cheap attached storage?
Thanks for the input guys. I'm helping a friend upgrade his HTPC and he has little room for a new drive in his case, so we are looking at external solutions. I will advise him that it will work but the drive speed might degrade over time, and we might have to take the drive out of the case and shoe-horn it in the case eventually.
yeah, i dont know why it is, but usb controllers LOVE to degrade with use. seems like anyway!...
Some computers will have trouble decoding M2TS file from the internal storage. How is it hanging? How are things at Audio section of the forum? Our cool mods blocked my access to it. Don't know it's for 1 month temporary or forever.^_^Test it on a USB 2.0 memory stick and see how it works. I haven't had any issues with 1080p MKV files, but bigger M2TS files might be problematic.
I have a laptop that's approaching 8 years old, that's been abused, dropped (tile floor), overheated (CPU fan wire cut off), smacked the USB port by accident, etc etc but both USB ports still work... They don't degrade over time, it's sometimes Windows operating system goes day dream and forgot what was connected. ha ha lmaoyeah, i dont know why it is, but usb controllers LOVE to degrade with use. seems like anyway!...