Would like to learn how to save movies to a portable hard drive and playback via ps3 ox xbox360.?

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R3DBULL

Want to store DVD movies on to portable hard drive and playback on ps3 or xbox 360. How do you do it?

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Save dvd movies to portable hard drive or playback on ps3 or xbox360, there is an easy way can help you, first you should know the best video format for ps3 is mp4(avc video codec, aac audio codec), and the best video format for xbox360 is wmv, so you just need to use a right software to convert DVD movies to right format movies then save on your portable harddrive and play back on your ps3 or xbox360, you can try RZ DVD Copy, it can convert DVD movies to any video files, such as convert DVD movies to right ps3 mp4 movies, or convert video dvd to right xbox360 wmv movies, etc, you can yahoo or google search and download RZ DVD Copy, easy to use, hope it can help you!

Can you plug a portable hard drive into a xbox 360 4GB?

R_Flip

So i want a xbox, im looking at a 4gb kinect bundle, its on sale and really cheap.
What are the cons of 4gb?
Does this xbox have the same features as the others? like 250gb and whatever else?
Like wifi? and usb ports?
so can you plug a portable hard drive into it and save things on and and it work the same?
Thanks .

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Yes, you can use a portable hard drive with an XBOX 360, but BEWARE! It won't work the same. There are some disadvantages of choosing this method for storing data.

+ You can use the entire hard drive for files you add on your PC or Mac like movies etc...
- You can only use up to 16 GB space for XBOX 360 Storage. (for games, saves etc etc) on an external (portable) hard drive.


I think you should get an internal hard drive, which is has no limitations for the XBOX 360 storage (the whole HDD is for XBOX 360).
You can only use a geniue Microsoft hard drive specifically designed for XBOX 360 Slim.

(it's hard to make hard drives for older XBOX 360s work and it's impossible to use a regular 2,5" SATA hard drive that are for PCs. Even thought it has a 2,5" SATA bay, it WONT accept a regular HDD, it spins it but it doesn't show up no matter how I format it. It needs a specific firmware, which is only present on Microsoft's HDD for XBOX 360)
So it's a much easier way to just get the official 250 GB HDD. It also has a special enclosure which makes it sliding it perfectly and fits it tight.
So basically it's just a slide-in thing.


So I would suggest you getting the Microsoft 250 GB Hard drive for XBOX 360 Slim. That's what I will do; I also have an XBOX 360 Slim 4 GB. (w/o Kinect)

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How long can an external hard drive stay on?

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GrandUser1

My external hard drive is a shared drive on my network. How long can it stay on?

I'm planning no keeping it on for at least 12 hours a day.

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External hard drives are simply the same kinds of hard drives that they put in computers (or into laptops). They just have a power cable (sometimes) and a data cable (USB or firewire).

The specific answer would depend on the drive that you bought. What you're looking for is the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). There has been some interesting research along these lines:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2105611,00.asp

Frankly, hard drive manufacturers typically publish an MTBF number around a million hours. So leaving it on for 12 hours a day means about 131 years of use if you had one million hours of MTBF.

Note, however, that such numbers are averages and are based on theoretical math models. We all know that real hard drives can and do fail, and they fail much, much sooner than 131 years. The fact that you turn it on or off probably doesn't really make much difference. The drives tend to fail somewhere in the 3-5 year range on average in my experience. If you replaced it every 2 years, you'd probably be a lot safer.

Don't kid yourself that you can't get a 'lemon' and have it fail 90 days after you buy it. But expecting failure in the 3-5 year range is prudent, even though many hard drives run for far, far longer.

How to connect external hard drive to network?

KRV

let me start by saying I am very technology dumb. I was told that it is possible to hook my external hard drive to our wireless network.
I am interested in doing so for two reasons...
1. to be able to access the folders on it from either laptop in the house.
2. to watch movies saved to it via the x-box????

Is this possible and how do I go about it?
I have verizon wireless

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You can connect the external HDD to one of the computers and then "Share" it across the network where all users on all computers will be able to see the shared files.

In order for you to stream video to the XBox you will need to setup "Windows Media Centre" on the same computer.

You cant just connect the external HDD to the network, you need a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device for this.

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