dwc Wrote: 
> I just want to make sure using one of these external IDE to USB 2.0
> converters is going to be fast enough.

I have not used this one, so I can't comment on it specifically.

But in general, USB 2 hard disks are plenty fast enough to stream music
for one to several clients. If you were serving 40 clients, I wouldn't
recommend it. A built-in hard disk is faster. But for the "normal" home
use of one to several clients, it's fine.

Where USB disks show their speed a bit is when you first scan your
library of music. Scan isn't fast anyways, although they're working on
speeding it up, and scan on a USB disk will be slower.

But if you only scan once, which is normal if you're not developing
code and switching versions every hour, you'll be fine.


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