[mythtv-users] Laptop Harddrive speed, capacity

[Fredrik Karlsson]

How about this one?


http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=USB+Firewire+Harddrive&pid=4709277296125004318&oid=502014496419517551&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p

Haven't tried it myself, but it says it has both USB 2.0 and Firewire support.

/Fredrik

On 11/10/05, Brandon Sherman <mechcozmo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hullo,
>
> In my continuing plot to create a MythTV box out of an old laptop, I
> am now eyeing the hard drive.  It is a standard 2.5" drive of unknown
> speed (I'd guess 5400, no more) and 40GB of space.  I'm looking at
> one of these: http://oss.wischip.com/  Which can give me MPEG-2,
> MPEG-4, and DivX.
> Do I need to get another hard drive?  The PlextorX will be connecting
> through a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card, and I'm not sure if a USB 2.0 hard
> disk would be good because of the bus bottleneck issue.
>
> There  is a 4-pin FireWire port on the computer, but nothing I've
> seen uses it (aside from cameras).
>
> Any suggestions on the drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
>
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