[mythtv-users] rip DVD (I own) to storage with menus

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Jan 17 14:44:44 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 08:17, Kris B. wrote:
>> Well, I think most people assume a usb storage drive as an option as
>> well.
>
> Not anyone who has been around long enough to get burned by buggy
> drivers, unreliable hardware, or just crappy performance in general.
> USB should have remained for use with low speed peripherals only, and
> left high speed transfers to firewire, which wouldn't throw a kernel
> panic or seize up every time you turned your back on it.

I have two external 2TB USB disks connected to my backend and I
haven't had any problems with them at all.  USB 2.0 and higher works
really well for backend storage drives.  Maybe not as well as SATA,
but well enough.

Eric


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