Are external hard drives bad for storing videos and playing them back?

>>55384067
Anything external and not eSATA is going to have a v bad read/write

>>55384067
Sure, why not? What do you think, OP?

>>55384078
Never used one

>>55384076
>esata: 6 gbit/s
>thunderbolt 3: 50 gbit/s
Enjoy your deprecated connectors

>>55384067
my vids play fine there all over 2-3 gb too. works even better if you have USB 3.0

No .

>>55384067
As long as it is USB 3.0 and is at least 7200 RPM, it should be fine with video storage and playback. Just make sure you back up your videos in other places as external hard drives fail more often than internal hard drives.

>>55384121
Yeah I do front and rear. Using MPCHC?

>>55384152
There is the option of purchasing an internal HDD and then buying an enclosure for it, but those cases tend to be of cheaper quality; especially so in regards to the ports.

I do not recommend it. I did this back in December. It is June and I can see my external dying in front of my eyes, I open a video and it stutters, plays for a minute, then stops again. I literally need to let the video buffer.
It's also starting to run hot as hell, portable externals suck dick.

You people have no idea of what you're talking about. A USB3.0 is more than fine for video storage and playback. Most Blu-Rays and high quality 4k/1080p encodes do not exceed 40MBits. USB3.0 is plenty enough already, something like Thunderbolt is nice but not at all necessary unless we're talking about video editing/encoding.

>>55384218
What exactly is your drive?

>>55384223
This.
Even on USB 2.0 with 480 mbit/s (theoretically) you'll be fine

It's fine for playback but always back it up.

>around 3 weeks ago
>Had over 1Tb of movies, games, music, etc on my 2Tb ext
>showing family something off the drive
>falls off my laptop, hits hard tile flooring from 4ft up
>fuckfuckfuck
>doesn't boot, undetected in OS, only clicks.
>learnt the hard way

back it up.