RB5-Black

I need a little more storage on my desktop so I was thinking about an External HDD. This 250GB one.

I'm going to use it for large amounts of Music/video storage and some streaming for my Xbox media player (I hope) does anyone have any experience of external HHD's via Firewire and will I be able to use it for the streaming application with only the 400MbPS

Craig.

RB5-Black

kernel

I've got one of the older Maxtor drives. Never tried the USB cos the Firewire has worked just fine. Only complaint is there is no on/off switch on mine, you turn it off buy killing the power

200GB and only 35GB free, wouldn't know it's not an internal drive as the performance is spot on.

Tried Media Player on my xbox last night. Seems it is Window Media Player so no sensible fast forward function, at least not on the several files I tried, AVI and MPG. Shame really.

lightning101

Only advice would be make sure u have USB2 or firewire and not much diffrence to DMA transfer. USB 1.1 - 9-12mbs slow as.

Best thing for streaming is SCSI

[Edited by lightning101 - 1/2/2004 6:30:14 PM]

sti555

Why not just go for an internal drive??


cheaper, faster, quieter.. no cables, no mess, no chance of spilling beer on it..

Or do you need removable storage for other means, will you be hiding your external from the missus???

LOL!

RB5-Black

the unplug and hide was something I didn't think of

I internal is cheaper but I'm not all that sure about the setup of the master/slave thing with the Two drives and the Hdd in the Pc at the moment.

Firewire seems easy setup and the ability to take it away with my.

Craig.

zhastaph

Go for an internal drive. The master/slave stuff is banana and someone on here will gladly help if you struggle.

I use the same drive but as a 120gb. It is fantactic, but i use it only for backing up and mass storage. I wouldn't use it as a HDD replacement, as even with firewire it's a nats slow, and also stonks CPU resources (a 2.4ghz) whilst writing to it.

RB5-Black

cPU usage was a thought ..... I'm going down the route of internal now....

Thanks for changing my mind ( keeping me right )

RB5-Black

what would you reccomend for a large 200-250 GB internal

andymar00

another internal option is go for a sata drive and sata controler card these will take upto 4 driver but you will need a spare pci slot, still a lot cheper than exernal

blitzed

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