external hard drive
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2010-09-27, 01:25 AM
can anyone give me some guidance about using an external usb hard drive to record tv shows directly to? I have been using an internal drive and now it is starting to get constant disk errors and I think it is kicking the bucket. I dont want there to be lag issue due to being usb instead of sata or ide. Also can anyone recommend a 500gb or 1tb drive less than $50? thanks for any tips!
2010-09-27, 10:45 PM
usb is always gonna be a problem with throughput..it only transfers at around 24-28MBps whereas a esata or sata will transfer significantly faster...[double or better]
but you can get a esata drive for external use...same speed as internal.. personally i get the raw drive by itself and add a enclosure of my liking...i know where you can get esata enclosures for around 20$... a 1000g drive is gonna be hard to find for *under* 50...much less with an enclosure... i did get a 1 tb iomega external usb for 68$ the other day....but that was a Fry's sale.. usb is only good for secondary storage [archival]...it'll bog down for recording if doing more than 1 stream at once..or trying to play one while recording another...
Hardware: HDHR Prime, HDPVR 1212, Raspberry pi2, VFD display w/LCDSmartie
2010-09-28, 07:31 PM
Just got an email from Newegg that reminded me of this post. Here's a 500 GB internal drive for $40 shipped. http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/sep...-E0B-_-HDD
If you scroll down just a bit there's a 1TB for $60 shipped. 
i3-3570k, 8GB RAM, Win10 Pro, Nvidia GT710, HDHomeRun (OTA), NPVR 6.x
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