I want to play movies off my external hard drive. These movies would be in clips and may be changed rapidly throughout a playlist. Would the hard drive lag? My regular one does not at all i can switch movies without a delay. Please give me your input
2006-12-23 14:19:50 · 9 answers · asked by jwurm99 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You shouldn't really have that much of a problem. Running video files with a program from an external hdd source should not be much if any different from doing so from a cd or dvd.
The speed of transfer from the external drive would depend on the speed of the hdd (5400, 7200, 10,000...), type of connection (Ethernet, USB 1.1, USB 2.0), drivers.
Performance of the video display program on your computer - Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Real Player, etc. - will depend on what programs you have running in addition.
2006-12-23 14:36:59 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The delay if any would be most noticeable if you either your computer or external hard drive were USB1.1. Otherwise even a slow 5400RPM Parallel IDE would work fine with either a firewire or USB 2.0.
Now one think to consider is how much load your computer is taking already with playing the movies from an internal hard drive. If it averages above 50%, your computer may be too slow to use an external hard drive as a movie jukebox.
Hope that helped
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2006-12-23 14:28:07 · answer #2 · answered by QueryAll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once you have copied the file to your external hard drive there will be a copy on your computer and a copy on the external drive. At this point you could delete the file on your PC and the copy on your external drive would remain. However, if the files are important and you have the space, it is not a bad idea to keep a copy on the PC. Your external drive could fail, be lost, be dropped or damaged in some other way, having said that it is not necessary to keep a copy on your PC as well if you don't have the space.
2016-05-23 03:01:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend a network hard drive over a usb2.
They are faster at sending the data, that is were the bottle neck happens on external hard drive.
http://www.lacie.com has a half a Tera
500/8=62 movies at full CD quality If you drop all the extra sound tracks and extra you should get around 150+movies on the drive.
2006-12-23 14:37:50 · answer #4 · answered by rob u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your computer is ment for playing fast transfer movies of an external hard drive and you've got USB-2.0 or any other fast interface, with HD support, you should be fine. Anything else, I don't know unless you want to get more specific.
2006-12-23 14:28:33 · answer #5 · answered by jcnman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will be fine. make sure its a usb 2.0 and you are not running more then 1 or 2 programs in the background.
in fact try to avoid running ANY programs in the background.
2006-12-23 15:13:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to try it.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2006-12-23 14:25:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you use USB2 and a good and fast HD, you should be ok
2006-12-23 14:23:32 · answer #8 · answered by axo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No good dude... USB is too slow. It will be jerky.
2006-12-23 14:55:41 · answer #9 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋