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cremate   02-08-2012 at 05:08:13 PM

Hello,

I wanted to see what bottle necks I should look out for when streaming media from my file server to my HTPC.

Identified components:

Hard drive (read) - 5k RPM
USB (external HD) - USB2
Router (using wired) - 10/100

What would be my bottleneck and thus, what should be upgraded for 1080 streaming?

Thanks!

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americanbrian   02-08-2012 at 05:23:13 PM

usb 2.0 interface is the slowest. install the drive in a networked pc instead of using it as an external.....

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americanbrian   02-08-2012 at 05:24:15 PM

OR, copy the file you want into an internal drive before streaming, but that is recurring hassle.

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cremate   02-08-2012 at 05:33:16 PM

What about if I upgraded to USB3? Would that still be the bottle neck or would it be the drive (or router bandwith)?

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americanbrian   02-08-2012 at 05:48:44 PM
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If the drive is USB 3.0 AND the server has a USB 3.0 port you should have no problems streaming 1080p.

It is unlikely you will find a 5400rom hd with a usb 3.0 interface though, wouldn't really make sense.

LAN is probably fine so long as their is no contention for the bandwidth, if you plan on having multiple users or uses of the LAN you want a 1gbps unit instead.

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cremate   02-08-2012 at 05:49:56 PM

Great thanks for the help.

As far as numbers this is what my research came up with:

100base-x (wrt54gl router) 12.5 mb/s
USB2 60 mb/s
usb3 625 mb/s

I'm having trouble finding what the drives rates would be and what I should be looking for as far as speed.

Is it assumed that if the interface is USB3 the drive will atleast perform that fast?

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