Is capturing to a USB1.1 external hard drive ok?

[stabber]

Want to tape something off of TV with my WINTV USB card. I know capturing to your system hard drive isnt good. I do have an 80 gig external USB hard drive I plan to capture to. Is this ok?

[drewson99]

if you are capping with any kind of decent quality, the transfer speed bottleneck is going to cause major frame dropping. better to cap to the system drive than to a usb 1.1 external.

ideally, get a second physical drive and put it on the second IDE channel.

[Gazorgan]

WINTV USB sucks. Plain and simple it's garbage.

You can capture from a good external USB 2.0 device to an exteranl USB 2.0 hardrive with no problem. Provided you have true USB 2.0 ports. Using your system drive won't kill you either, it jsut depends on what you are capturing (codec/bitrate).

USB 1.0 and 1.1 aren't useful for anything but keyboards and mice (and maybe a floppy drive).

[MrMungus]

What if you're using an MPEG-2 hardware encoder device? If the bitrate is only 8Mbps, wouldn't that work on USB (which is 12Mbps)?

[Memo_182]

I don't think so I've never seen any USB device avhieve it's full bandwith transfer speed. Most CDrw drives write at 4x and that's only 600Kbps so I wouldn't be surprised that it can't capture at the full 12 Mbps

[holistic]

USB 1.1 is 12 Mega BITS a second.

Equates to 12 divided by 8 (8 bits to a byte)
Equals 1.5 Mega BYTES a second. Pathetic in all uses except (as stated) keyboards,mice,printers and scanners.

[feenix]

...............and soundcards!