[mythtv-users] Anyone archiving to Blu-Ray Disks?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Jul 8 14:14:12 UTC 2010


On 7/8/2010 10:07, belcampo wrote:
> Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>> USB drive cases are relatively cheap, but performance stinks,
>>
>> I'm going to disagree with this one.  I bought an external 2TB USB 2.0
>> drive a couple of months ago and moved my rips that I have with
>> mythvideo over to the external drive and I haven't had any performance
>> problems at all.  Even the full bit rate blu ray rips play flawlessly.
>>  Sure, esata would have been faster, but USB 2.0 is plenty fast enough
>> for playback of HD material.
> Of course, what's max-rate of BR ? 40Mb/s, that would be 5MB/s where 
> this morning I did a backup of a partition, reading lots of small 
> files, which hurts the speed, but nevertheless got 35MB/s via USB2.0

1x BD is 36mbps, and they make burners up to 12x CAV.


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