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<blockquote data-quote="GenesisFactor" data-source="post: 61891" data-attributes="member: 21784">I have a similar problem with my computer.&nbsp; Or should i say, computers.&nbsp; Your problem id dlightly different so here's my recommendation:get the USB 2.0 enclosure or a NAS enclosureand a huge ATA100-133 drive.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Unless you're recording at HDTV you can stream divx encoded vids as large as the ones they make when they copy movies over wifi B without a hitch.&nbsp; Sure there's a buffer time wait of about 5-10 seconds, but that's 5.5mbps, plus my &quot;server&quot; is a dinky 933Mhz gateway desktop wuth 512 RAM (it was free do you think i'd pay money for that?).&nbsp; My point is that your limiting factor , especially at 100-480MBps are the movies themselves.&nbsp; transfering the movies to the drives will be the only time you'll see the speed difference, but what's an extra two minutes.&nbsp; If you're using an SATA drive to solely play recordings and movies, you should have bought a 500 ATA for the same money and called it a day.&nbsp; As a playback storage drive to a single computer, its overkill.&nbsp; as a main OS drive or something, it rocks.Plus a Nas will be a great thing to have if you ever get a laptop as it doesn't tax your HTPC when you want to pull a file off.&nbsp; Also, look at Hitachi's high end ATA drives as their speeds serial drives.#8</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GenesisFactor, post: 61891, member: 21784"] I have a similar problem with my computer. Or should i say, computers. Your problem id dlightly different so here's my recommendation: get the USB 2.0 enclosure or a NAS enclosureand a huge ATA100-133 drive. Why? Unless you're recording at HDTV you can stream divx encoded vids as large as the ones they make when they copy movies over wifi B without a hitch. Sure there's a buffer time wait of about 5-10 seconds, but that's 5.5mbps, plus my "server" is a dinky 933Mhz gateway desktop wuth 512 RAM (it was free do you think i'd pay money for that?). My point is that your limiting factor , especially at 100-480MBps are the movies themselves. transfering the movies [u]to[/u] the drives will be the only time you'll see the speed difference, but what's an extra two minutes. If you're using an SATA drive to solely play recordings and movies, you should have bought a 500 ATA for the same money and called it a day. As a playback storage drive to a single computer, its overkill. as a main OS drive or something, it rocks. Plus a Nas will be a great thing to have if you ever get a laptop as it doesn't tax your HTPC when you want to pull a file off. Also, look at Hitachi's high end ATA drives as their speeds serial drives. #8 [/QUOTE]

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