[mythtv-users] Fast Forwarding Slow on USB hard drives

[John Drescher]

On 7/27/07, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics
<steve at priorityelectronics.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have an ubuntu feisty mythtv setup on a core 2 duo backend/frontend combo.
> My videos folder is on an external USB 2.0 hard drive (it's a seagate 500GB
> IDE Drive inside an external caddy)
>
USB 2.0 should limit the drive to 40MB/s max while the drive (assuming
its SATA) can do around 75MB/s so you may see some benefit to putting
the drive directly in the computer.
John