Thanks all
I an currently using the USB 2.0 cable to the hard drive. The only change I made to the standard setup of JRiver was to increase the buffering of the Asio driver by about 20%. It correlated with removing the occasional dropout.
So it looks like my old laptop is fast enough as a stand alone music player for red book flac 'd content.
I was also curious about the newer high resolution formats. So based on this conversation the Hard drive to PC through USB 2.0 won't be a problem since the file size will just be larger and a high resolution DAC will take care of the rest.
Thanks
I an currently using the USB 2.0 cable to the hard drive. The only change I made to the standard setup of JRiver was to increase the buffering of the Asio driver by about 20%. It correlated with removing the occasional dropout.
So it looks like my old laptop is fast enough as a stand alone music player for red book flac 'd content.
I was also curious about the newer high resolution formats. So based on this conversation the Hard drive to PC through USB 2.0 won't be a problem since the file size will just be larger and a high resolution DAC will take care of the rest.
Thanks