USB external drive vs PC internal drive

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Hello Everyone,

I have a quick question re: a USB external drive vs PC internal drive.

I have the WD live Hub has a 1TB internal drive…

Currently I have all my movies on my PC intenal HHD and stream them over wireless to the WD Live Hub…(works great)…

but since I have way more than 1TB woth of movies I now have buy more storage so I was thinking of buying a 2TB HHD for my PC or shoul I get the WD USB 3.0 extrenal HHD and plug that into my WD LIve Hub?   

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Both solutions will work, however if most of your movies are in HD you may have better resultts with a direct USB connection than wireless.

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Kind of what I was thinking…Most of the movies I have are HD and they are  large files…The WD Live HUB has 2.0 USB and the WD Essentials has a 3.0 USB and the WD Element has 2.0 USB. So Will that matter ? …   

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The WD Essentials that has USB 3.0 will step down to USB 2.0 speed