I have been searching for an answer to this and found nothing, so I hope I'm not re-hashing an old thread.
My question is, is a USB hard drive (at 7200RM and an 8MB cache) fast enough for watching stored high-definition video (WMV9 and DIVX)?
As an audio professional, I can appreciate the limitations of USB intimately. But, in terms of watching video (not recording or capturing), I wonder whether USB would do? Makes buying external hard drives a lot cheaper.
@Waymon...Faster in the front than back? How is your rig setup? I never heard that and always thought a motherboard was either old enough to still have USB1 or new enough to be USB2. Please explain more.
@typvgs...IT works well to a certain extent, If the computer is being taxed it has a greater chance of slight pauses and burps. At least it did on some older drives I tried with. Now if I wanna take anything somewhere I just make a file on the host computer, transfer it there and not worry. WMV9 and DVX is a lot lighter container than 8GB .iso though so you probably wont have a problem. If you do let us know!
When I put my USB2.0 memory stick in a device that is 1.0, front or back, the generic window pops up saying it can run faster if using a different port. How come that doesnt happen in the front on a computer that runs 2.0?
All the ports on the mobo you have in your sig are 2.0.
some boards usb front port are usb1 & some are usb2, depends on the age of the board. worked on 1 today with fresh install of xp pro sp2 & front ports said i would get faster speed if i connect to usb2 when i connected my memory stick. saw the enhanced usb controller in device manager was okay. board uses an amd 1700+ cpu. my system has usb2 on the front ports but is a newer board running a celeron d 2.53ghz.
Sounds like it will be no problem watching high-def videos via a USB drive.
Thanks!
As for USB ports vs. front and rear...it should make no difference, I would think, provided they are all USB 2.0. Although, using a hub would slow things down, I think, even if other devices are not connected.
