I have a storage server with my personal ripped DVD's (so they can be watched over the network), and yesterday we wanted to see a movie. So I fired it up, and everthing went OK...for 20 seconds. Then the playback started to be jerky. (What a jerk! 
) So I thought it was a network error, took the drive out of the server and connected directly it to the HTPC. It seemed OK, but every now and then (maybe every 5 minutes) there was a small "hiccup". Towards the end it got a lot wors, and finally the last 10 minutes of the movie took 25 minutes! Annoying as heck. So I decided to see what I could save since it seemed like the drive was failing. And I started copying. The strange thing is that it copies most of the movies, it just takes foreeeeeever to do it. One movie takes maybe an hour. Should take less then five minutes. And for a long time it just sits there without any "??? minutes left" or anything, then it seems to start again because the minutes reappear. Does anybody know what this may be? It behaves just the same in two computers, so it's not the IDE channel or the cable that's failing.
) So I thought it was a network error, took the drive out of the server and connected directly it to the HTPC. It seemed OK, but every now and then (maybe every 5 minutes) there was a small "hiccup". Towards the end it got a lot wors, and finally the last 10 minutes of the movie took 25 minutes! Annoying as heck. So I decided to see what I could save since it seemed like the drive was failing. And I started copying. The strange thing is that it copies most of the movies, it just takes foreeeeeever to do it. One movie takes maybe an hour. Should take less then five minutes. And for a long time it just sits there without any "??? minutes left" or anything, then it seems to start again because the minutes reappear. Does anybody know what this may be? It behaves just the same in two computers, so it's not the IDE channel or the cable that's failing.
