Hi everyone,
I'm buying the following devices this weekend:
1. 1.5TB Western Digital External HDD
2. Netgear WNDR3700
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The router is preloaded with ReadyDLNA and obviously UPnP, so when I plugin the HDD through the router's USB port, it automatically loads videos and pictures to my Playstation 3 (PS3). And I'm able to watch many types of video and music formats. =)
That is all understood, and I'm comfortable with that.
However my question lies in the external hard drive I'm buying. It runs at 5400rpm. I understand that there exists 7200pm in the world, but I want to know what difference will this 5400rpm HDD do for what I plan to use it for?
How will it affect anything? Will it stream music and movies slowly to the PS3? Will it degrade quality? I want to be sure to provide the best thing possible for my family, lol.![]()
Thanks in advance for the answers!
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The difference between 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm hard drives lies in the latency and burst read rates. The sustained read rates between both will be about 5% different. You can safely go for the 5400 rpm.
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It won't affect anything- average read/write speed of 5400rpm HDs is above 60MB/s which is way faster than you can hope to transfer via USB 2.0 port- especially one in a router.
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Essentially, what downloads said. The NAS functionality in the WNDR3700 isn't particular fast. Expect ~10MB/s read/write speed. That ain't bad for an NAS that's integrated in a router. Nevertheless, the speed of the hard drive is obv irrelevant here as the WNDR is the limiting factor. If you need more speed, you'd require a dedicated NAS.
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Downloads is right. The USB on the Netgear is way too slow for you to notice any difference.
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Oh, I see. Thank you very much for your answers =)
1.)Is it possible to get a dedicated NAS that can transcode certain x264 formats like .mkv?
2.) Can dedicated NAS be connected to the PS3? -
1.) afaik, the answer is no.
2.) yes, the ps3 can access a NAS over your home network. -
I've had my HP ex475 NAS for couple years now and it streams .mkv to my multimediaboxthingy* connected to TV. Only thing needed to do was renaming mkv to avi so the actual media server software started sharing those files.
*given to me by my operator, can't remember type -
bought a new WNDR3700 to go with my new Mac Powerbook. Hooked everything up, including a new 1.5TB My Book Essential Mac formatted Hard Drive. I also have a Maxtor 1T OneTouch - 4 Drive that I could see in my readyshare folder. This was formatted for PC, but I reformatted for Mac when I bought the Powerbook. I could see the Drive in my Readyshare, even copy files from it. But I couldn't write to it. I figured I did something wrong, but didn't want to lose any data - unfortunately I lost my Payroll software that I just bought, or spend a day writing to discs. So I bought a 1.5 TB My Book Essential. I reformatted for Mac, can read and write to it when plugged directly in to the Mac. But when I use the WNDR3700, I can only read from it. When transferring data I first get this error "One or more items can’t be copied to “T_Drive” because you don’t have permission to read them. Do you want to copy the items you are allowed to read?" When I click continue, I get this error..."The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items." I believe I have full read write permissions as the administrator. Tech support says you can't hook up ANY external harddrive, the usb is for flash drives only.
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Honestly I don't know a thing about Macs- all I found out is that current file system is HFS or HFS+.
According to WNDR3700 specs it supports FAT16/32, NTFS Read/Write, Ext 2 Read/Write, Ext 3 Read/Write- meaning Windows and Linux file systems. Reformat to NTFS and connect it again.
WNDR3700 + 1.5TB External HDD Question
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