Setup Advice

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1

I’m replacing my W10 Laptop Kodi install with a Vero 4k+ as I have a new 4k TV which the Laptop is unable to support.

Currently, I have USB drives attached to the Laptop, and software on the Laptop to manage metadata etc of the media.

I will continue to have the Laptop connected to the TV as I often need to load up Chrome, Excel etc.

I also have another Laptop that’s running a Plex Server for media to the In-Laws who live in a Granny Annex, and currently, this pulls some of the media files over the LAN from the Kodi Laptop.

Do I move the USB drives directly to the Vero, or continue to share them over the LAN?

Obviously, I don’t want to put a strain on the Vero box, but want to get the best performance out of it with 4k content.

2

Well there is no reason to not move it to the Vero especially as the Vero compared to the laptop would be a always on device

3

I’ve moved the drives to be local to the Vero 4k+, but the transfers speed over the LAN are painfully slow - presumably because they are now connected to USB2 rather than USB3 on the laptop.

Will the Vero 4k+ be happy to pull 50Gb of 4k video over the LAN as I think I’m going to have to put the drives back on the Laptop.

4

USB2 is fast enough for 4K.
How are the drives formatted? Avoid NTFS if possible

5

Well that should be fine if you have a Gigabit network. But USB2 shouldn’t be the main bottleneck as it still should give you around 300 MBit.