Capturing to an ethernet HDD

[SwornEnemy]

Up till now I have done all of my capturing via an ATI USB2 Wonder on the DVD setting which is set to a Constant bitrate of 8 MB (Mpeg-2). I also use a program called Fraps to capture some PC gaming in real time, and that writes out as a raw avi (there are no settings for fraps and it cannot do real time encoding).

I always captured the above media to an external USB2 HDD. Since at times that drive is unshareable..mainly when the PC it is connected is off, I looked into one of these ethernet hard drives..and I am awaiting the Iomega 250GB drive to arrive. The plan is to use this as a place to store all my music and captured content (tv shows, etc). I had it in my mind that I would have to probably capture still to that external USB2 drive and that drag the files over to the new network drive....

But is that needed? I do plan to test this by writing the network drive via ethernet, but am I right to assume there is a definite bottleneck between the line speed and the amount of data that needs to be written?

Any ideas/thoughts are appreciated.

[yoda313]

Hi,

You say ethernet - is it the standard 100mb line??? They do make the gigabit ethernet networks for higher transfers. You may want to look into that.

Kevin

[SwornEnemy]

Yes, 100 mbps...and I'm sure I'll never be able to see 10MB as my actual transfer rate. GigE would mean a new router and a new card for the PC, plus I wouldn't be able to do anything with my laptop.