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

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Jan 17 15:14:06 UTC 2012


On 1/17/2012 09:44, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> 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.

Things may have changed in the meanwhile, but I've sworn off USB since 
around 2005, when any data transfer over a few GB would consistently 
cause kernel panics in both the Athlon64 and P4 SuSE workstations we had 
at the lab.  At least that is when the data transfer didn't just 
inexplicably stall, and require the drive to be power cycled.  Firewire 
to the same drives always "just worked", and transferred easily twice as 
fast as USB.


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