2013-10-03, 20:21
I wonder if this is the reason for theneverstill's buffering issue: "All movies ended up being in the neighborhood of 40GB".
Unless my quick math is wrong, this would require a transfer rate of about 45 Mb per second for a 2 hour movie. While that is well within the theoretical transfer rate of USB 2.0, I am pretty sure I saw benchmarks indicating actual transfer speeds (from fast USB keys) in the 20s. As I recall, the benchmarks were in the discussion about speeding up the Pi by using a USB key for the storage volume.
Unless my quick math is wrong, this would require a transfer rate of about 45 Mb per second for a 2 hour movie. While that is well within the theoretical transfer rate of USB 2.0, I am pretty sure I saw benchmarks indicating actual transfer speeds (from fast USB keys) in the 20s. As I recall, the benchmarks were in the discussion about speeding up the Pi by using a USB key for the storage volume.