Does anyone currently have their box configured with a USB harddrive for storage?

Can the USB harddrive be use to store videos and music without a performance impact on the quality of the playback.

Thanks,
Mike G.

probably, but the whole reason that most people want it wouldn't work very well, because you would need to keep a linux filesystem on it to keep performance up, as NTFS is slow, and FAT32 file sizes are limited to 2G.

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Correct me if I am wrong,

LVM + USB Hub + (N * USB Harddrive), where N would be the number of ports on the HUB.

Could this solve the problem of dynamically expanding a MythBox storage without having a separate file share or adding HDs to the box itself?

I am looking into solutions to the need for increased storage without reconfiguring my box or adding physical internal HDs to the box.

Note: I am not looking for these USB hard drives to be shared(moved) between Windows/Lunix boxes except through Samba.

Thanks,
Mike G.

that sounds like a feasible solution. you would have to make sure they are usb2 and that you had the ehci driver loaded.

also it's a rather expensive solution, but they do make an external usb2 box that has 1Tb storage in it.

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