External Hard drive recommendation- Plex

[ea9]

Hi boy and girls,

Need an external HD for my plex mac mini server.
Need to it be quiet (it's in the bedroom)/reliable/3-5TB's and obviously USB 3.0 lol.

many thanks !

 

[tampatom]

Build your own

I buy fanless enclosures from Other World Computing then put in Western Digital GREEN drives . They are quiet and cool and I think they come in sizes up to 5 TB.

 

[nebo1ss]

Hi boy and girls,

Need an external HD for my plex mac mini server.
Need to it be quiet (it's in the bedroom)/reliable/3-5TB's and obviously USB 3.0 lol.

many thanks !

What is funny about your requirement for USB 3? Why are you "Laughing out Loud"

 

[waw74]

obviously USB 3.0 lol.

Why obviously?

USB2 is more than capable of simultaneously handling 3-5 straight blu-ray rips. depending on the bit-rate of the movies.

apart from the initial load-on of the files, you won't see much gain by using USB3. and if you're downloading off the net, you won't see any difference.

granted the price premium for USB3 over 2 is rapidly disappearing and almost non-existent. so there's really no reason to not get 3.

 

[poiihy]

Why obviously?

USB2 is more than capable of simultaneously handling 3-5 straight blu-ray rips. depending on the bit-rate of the movies.

apart from the initial load-on of the files, you won't see much gain by using USB3. and if you're downloading off the net, you won't see any difference.

granted the price premium for USB3 over 2 is rapidly disappearing and almost non-existent. so there's really no reason to not get 3.

I always get USB 3 instead of USB 2 because it is similar but allows full speed access to the drive. If it is USB 2 enclosure then you are limited to only 30MByte/s even if the drive can go up to 100Mbyte/s. I don't like that.

 

[Boyd01]

apart from the initial load-on of the files, you won't see much gain by using USB3

Yeah, and I don't like that. You wait for the file to load, then it lags if you try to skip through it. I keep my media on a USB 3.0 drive that clocks around 170 MB/sec. Everything is connected with gigabit ethernet which supports over 100 MB/sec data transfer.

That way, the only bottleneck is the Apple TV itself. I just use iTunes though, not plex, so maybe that makes a difference. 🙂

 

[cardsdoc]

Don't forget about speed of transferring/copying files to other drives or backups. While there is probably not a frequent need USB3 makes a huge difference. In 2015 I see no good reason to purchase USB2 hardware.

 

[ea9]

Don't forget about speed of transferring/copying files to other drives or backups. While there is probably not a frequent need USB3 makes a huge difference. In 2015 I see no good reason to purchase USB2 hardware.

Exactly.

Fudge I seriously can't understand why some people take the time to get caught up on a little lol I dropped in the middle of an entire post. It's so irrelevant.

USB3 is everywhere, even if I have to transfer 20GBs ONCE then the 5-15$ extra will have been worth it.

That's why 'lol'. Sometimes I wonder in humanity.
If you have nothing to say just don't say it.

The first guy that commented, I decided to just ignore but then another with a similar comment and somehow now this is what the thread is about.

Never mind guys, I'll just read reviews on Amazon. Thanks to those that actually tried to help.

/thread