2015-12-20, 04:10
Looks like you get a three year warranty on that drive, so sounds good and should last. We don't have any usb h/d here with that length of warranty. I didn't see the internal speed of the drive (such as 5400 or 7200) or seek rate.
The reason I'd recommend gigabit (if you do split the machine in to a cheap frontend and hidden backend) is that if you quickly jump forward 30/40/50 minutes in to a program to catch the final score then with 100mbps there would be a slight lag which I found annoying. However, if you have more patience or just watch a program and fast-forward a few minutes of adverts then 100mbps is fine since you hit the cached buffers.
Good luck.
The reason I'd recommend gigabit (if you do split the machine in to a cheap frontend and hidden backend) is that if you quickly jump forward 30/40/50 minutes in to a program to catch the final score then with 100mbps there would be a slight lag which I found annoying. However, if you have more patience or just watch a program and fast-forward a few minutes of adverts then 100mbps is fine since you hit the cached buffers.
Good luck.
