Using Android TV box is media server - Please read all!

[Slamit]

I have several Android TV boxes, and thousands of videos recorded on Hard Drives. I have some ancient hard drives in which videos are stored on that I want to keep. It will cost a lot of money and time to transfer these videos to new 2.5 USB drives. What I have done is buy a Universal Hard Drive adapter in which I can simply plug in any hard drive into, and it works great, with one exception. It Identifies the Hard Drive without a problem. The problem is that it takes a very long time to load the files from the drive to the Android TV box for them to play. Is there a way to decrease the amount of time it takes to load the videos? Maybe using a USB stick to cache the videos? Please help?!

 

[B. Diddy]

I moved this to the Android TV forum for more specific traffic.

 

[Rukbat]

It depends on the box and the adapter. Are they both USB 3.1? Or is one of them USB 2? That would slow things down. The port on a newer box should be fast enough to watch a video, but if it's a 5 minute video, it's going to take close to 5 minutes to load it, unless both are 3.1. Transfer rates are:

2 60MB/s
3 640MB/s
3.1 G1 625MB/s
3.1 G2 1.25GB/s