Hard drive lagging when connected to TV

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matemate13

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Hello everyone :)
First of all I would like to say sorry if I have placed this in the wrong topic...
Well here is my problem. I have a hard drive with movies on and I plug that into my TV and watch them from there. When the hard drive is plugged into the TV via USB it is really laggy just to move from one movie across to the next or even open a folder takes about 10-20 seconds. It also happens when in the movie if I go to turn the volume down it can take 10-30 seconds again which can be really annoying if the volume is way to loud.
The hard drive is 3.0 but I think the TV is 2.0 if I'm correct, I don't know if that means anything but there it is.
It's a Samsung TV
And a 1TB hard drive

Thank you for any help!!! :)
 
Your "smart" TV is a piece of rubbish...

They load these TV's with crap hardware and even crappier firmware.
 
Model: UA32F4000AM
But I dunno what year it is but I brought it in 2013 and it's newer TV so it ain't that old.
 
You lucky, I had a 1 TB HDD that reboots my TV each time I plugged it in, with the TV not able to complete start up with it still connected. Just got another brand HDD which solved the problem.

PS....hdd still works fine on pc and laptop
 
3.0 to 2.0 wouldn't mean anything would it? I know means it faster and **** but 3 to 2 shouldn't change anything??
Sorry I'm just not the best with this stuff hahaha :)
 
This is my experience:
Had similar problems with other types of equipment i.e. media players and network attached storage.

It turns out, the firmware (usually Linux Embedded) has poor support for NTFS formatted drives.
I took my external hard disk and reformatted with a Linux machine to ext3. After doing that (and appropriate adjustments of ownerships and permissions) that drive's access speed became comparable to that of the internal drive (of the NAS) and it worked with the media player flawlessly
 
No the USB 2 on the TV is plenty to play movies off a HDD, it's the underpowered CPU and bad programming in your TV causing this issue.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
No the USB 2 on the TV is plenty to play movies off a HDD, it's the underpowered CPU and bad programming in your TV causing this issue.
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In the case of Seagate products this is definitely the issue... and I am willing to bet the smart TV also uses the standard Linux libraries out there for reading NTFS formatted external media. That is potentially why, when formatting the thing to ext3 solves the problem for me.
I am curious to see if it would also work with a smart tv
 
Sonic2k said:
This is my experience:
Had similar problems with other types of equipment i.e. media players and network attached storage.

It turns out, the firmware (usually Linux Embedded) has poor support for NTFS formatted drives.
I took my external hard disk and reformatted with a Linux machine to ext3. After doing that (and appropriate adjustments of ownerships and permissions) that drive's access speed became comparable to that of the internal drive (of the NAS) and it worked with the media player flawlessly
Click to expand...

I'd much rather suggest FAT32.
 
Wow that you all for the ideas

@chevron
I don't really want anymore things that use wifi or Bluetooth or anything because I have a soundbar that just interferes with everything and I like to have that on when watching a movie.

@Sonic2k
I may have to try that, I will have look into it and see how it is done and if I'm capable of doing it.

@ScottulusMaximus
Thanks I hope it isn't my TV because I don't wanna have to buy a new one.

I'm gonna look into the reformatting the HDD. And them media players.

Cheers guys!
 
Sonic2k said:
In the case of Seagate products this is definitely the issue... and I am willing to bet the smart TV also uses the standard Linux libraries out there for reading NTFS formatted external media. That is potentially why, when formatting the thing to ext3 solves the problem for me.
I am curious to see if it would also work with a smart tv
Click to expand...
I've never had a problem with NTFS on USB devices with media players - never tried plugging direct into a smart TV though.
 
Chevron said:
I'd much rather suggest FAT32.
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FAT32 is useless if you are trying to add big files like HD movies. I think on that format it starts complaining if you try to put anything bigger than 3 or 4gb onto it saying that there isn't enough space available even when there is.
 
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