Video Playback issues from Toshiba Canvio 3Tb External Drive

[eallen 0]

Hi All,

I have the following issue.

 

I am playing a movie from a 3TB Toshiba Canvio External Drive. This is a USB 3.0 drive connected at USB 2.0.

 

When playing this video back using Media Browser Classic it freezes everytime in the same place, but if I take the same rip and move it to my 2TB western digital external drive which is USB 2.0 I have no problems playing the movie back.

 

With the rip on the 3TB Toshiba Canvio External Drive I tried to playback using MB Theater and playback was horrible choppy. I thought I had an issue with the drive so I returned in and both a new drive only to have the same issues.

 

I then installed VLC and had no issues with playback. The movie never froze.

 

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

Thanks

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Maybe the solution in the last post linked below will help you:

 

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/4132-large-storage-disks/

[bloodtaker 71]

What I have read online from customer reviews it has poor performance and poor build quality. 95% of the users seem to hate it and this is coming from their website.

 

Reviews

 

My personal preference for external or internal physical hard drives are WD and Seagate. They have great performance and build quality and are reliable with minimal faults.

 

Again these are personal preferences as I have used a variety and found that these two are the best for my needs.

[shaefurr 1340]

I've only used WD drives for the past 15 years, and the only drives I ever had a problem with were external

 

1 Failure, 1 with the video_ts issues, and 1 that just wouldnt show up at all in windows, even as RAW/unpartitioned. However the one with Video_ts errors is now in my server since I ripped it out and its never had an issue since. Starting to think some external drives just tend to have USB issues or something.

[eallen 0]

I tried to convert the drive to GPT and I had the same issue.

 

I seen the reviews and they mainly complained about USB issues.  I have no problems with playback through VLC from the same drive.

 

Thanks for the help