second exodous
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For the last year and a half I've been using eSATA, it maxes out your HD, the fastest connection. Well, something is wrong with my tower, I think it is the mother board, when I try to transfer anything it locks up no matter how I try it: eSATA, USB, firewire, um, those are it. I even installed the OS again and that didn't help. My mother board just went out of warranty also, tell me that wasn't planned.
Anyway, I've had to move some things around so I took the HDs out and put them in external enclosures and have been using my Atom PC to do it, all it has is USB 2.0. The thing is eSATA stays at a constant speed, between 40 MB/s and 80 MB/s depending on the drive I'm using, but USB never gets above like 25 MB/s and it goes clear down to 9 and then back up and then back down and then back up and you get the idea. Does USB 3.0 fluctuate this much? I think USB transfer speed is processor dependent where SATA isn't, is that where the problem is? Firewire is a pretty solid transfer rate also, don't know if that is processor dependent or not.
I'm hesitant to buy a new mother board since I don't use my main system at all anymore other than ripping media and encoding said media to .mkv files that my eee box can play. I'm sure my eee box will take hours to encode the video that takes my main system less time, maybe an half hour. I haven't even played any games on it for months, I'm not that big of a gamer anymore.
Right before this I was debating getting rid of my eee pc and trying a Panda board or wait until a Zbox AD03 came out. Right now when I rip blu-ray I can't play them on my eee box since it can't play even 720p video but both the Panda board and the zbox should be able to. Right now I use a media box to play every high quality video file on but it would be great to do that on the PC I use the most.
Now I don't know what to do, I'm lost.
Anyway, I've had to move some things around so I took the HDs out and put them in external enclosures and have been using my Atom PC to do it, all it has is USB 2.0. The thing is eSATA stays at a constant speed, between 40 MB/s and 80 MB/s depending on the drive I'm using, but USB never gets above like 25 MB/s and it goes clear down to 9 and then back up and then back down and then back up and you get the idea. Does USB 3.0 fluctuate this much? I think USB transfer speed is processor dependent where SATA isn't, is that where the problem is? Firewire is a pretty solid transfer rate also, don't know if that is processor dependent or not.
I'm hesitant to buy a new mother board since I don't use my main system at all anymore other than ripping media and encoding said media to .mkv files that my eee box can play. I'm sure my eee box will take hours to encode the video that takes my main system less time, maybe an half hour. I haven't even played any games on it for months, I'm not that big of a gamer anymore.
Right before this I was debating getting rid of my eee pc and trying a Panda board or wait until a Zbox AD03 came out. Right now when I rip blu-ray I can't play them on my eee box since it can't play even 720p video but both the Panda board and the zbox should be able to. Right now I use a media box to play every high quality video file on but it would be great to do that on the PC I use the most.
Now I don't know what to do, I'm lost.