external HDs and xbox 360

[frosty satan]

heya
i was wondering if i buy an external HD, and have movies on it, could i plug it into an xbox and watch them thru my tv, thru my xbox?

Also thinkin bout these, any thoughts?

Antec MX-1 3.5" SATA External HDD Case
Computer Alliance

750GB Seagate 7200rpm 32M Serial ATA HDD (has 32mb but sata 2)
Computer Alliance

750GB Western Digital KS 7200rpm 16M SATA HDD (16mb but sata 3)
Computer Alliance

Which would be better for storing movies,music and games etc, and for watching movies from?

[screwballl]

Does the xbox 360 have an eSATA connector???

from what I hear you can stream (network) and connect using USB but not eSATA.... as for accessing stuffon an external driver I really do not know

[frosty satan]

its got 3 usbs and one that looks like a slot for a lan cord?
i plugged my psp into the 360 once, via usb. let me play music from my psp thru the tv, so i dunno
but its microsoft, so i figure theyd have support for something like this?

[simple_inhibition]

i can test it out for you, i have an xbox and an external usb hdd. brb ;-)

[frosty satan]

really. Thanks man

[simple_inhibition]

the only thing i could get to work was pictures. no videos or music. you have to stream that through your network from your computer to the xbox

[frosty satan]

damn. thanks for that :) guess i'll just get an internal hard drive..

how do you connect your PC and 360 anyway?

[simple_inhibition]

i messed around with it for only a little bit, but apparently you need to be running windows media center in order for your xbox to access what you have on the computer. i know in vista it reads my xbox on the network as a media extender. good thing is i just picked up the new MPC magazine and they have a how to guide on setting up your xbox to stream content from your computer. ill more than likely have to reformat my system due to all of the codec's ive had to add to my system.

[onebxr]

E8400 @ *testing*
Gigabyte X38-DQ6
2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1142 @ DDR2 1200 5-5-5-15 2.2v
2 Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3870 in Crossfire
Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache HDD
Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Silverstone DA750
Samsung Dual Layer DVD Burner
Lian Li G70WB
Thermochill PA120.3|Swiftech Storm Rev.2|Swiftech MCP 655

WOW Simple you got a nice system there! I just noticed this, I, as a taxpayer, am glad we paid your salary to get this. And that is no joke. Thanks for your service and I am glad you got something out of it.
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[simple_inhibition]

lol yeah, that was my little welcome home gift to myself i now have a bunch of 939 stuff that im still deliberating its fate lol