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Post by choliscott » Sat May 12, 2012 7:37 pm

Hi Everyone,

Is anybody using a USB 3.0 drive as a recording drive? If so, how is that working out? Any issues with fast fowarding/rewinding/skipping forward/back?

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Post by lithium630 » Sat May 12, 2012 8:44 pm

choliscott wrote:Hi Everyone,

Is anybody using a USB 3.0 drive as a recording drive? If so, how is that working out? Any issues with fast fowarding/rewinding/skipping forward/back?

Thanks
I have a raid 5 array connected by USB 3. I used it for a few days when my recording drive crashed. No problems at all. I have six tuners total. I think I had 4 recording at the same time.
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Post by DanH » Sun May 13, 2012 11:34 am

I used to record multiple HD streams while playing back with a USB2 drive under a much earlier version of my system. Not a problem. It all depends on how many activities you may have concurrently occuring. Obviously USB3 is faster, but you also need to look at the drive's read/write speed. A faster interface does not fix a slow drive.
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