2017-03-21, 18:42
My external drive is a brand-new Passport USB-3 drive (4TB), connected to the Shield with the 2 or 3-foot long USB 3 cable that came with the drive. I'm copying approximately 1.8TB from one source (the Windows 7 HTPC) and another TB from a NAS.
Before I go much further, I want to ask a question that Tinwarble addressed earlier: sending files to the Shield from the Windows 7 PC. For the sake of keeping everything streaming as fast as possible, wouldn't it make more sense to have the source directly connected to the playback device via a USB-3 cable at 5Gbps than over a LAN with two gig-E switches at 28 MB/s?
Before I go much further, I want to ask a question that Tinwarble addressed earlier: sending files to the Shield from the Windows 7 PC. For the sake of keeping everything streaming as fast as possible, wouldn't it make more sense to have the source directly connected to the playback device via a USB-3 cable at 5Gbps than over a LAN with two gig-E switches at 28 MB/s?
