possible to stream from an USB HD?

[tele]

My HD space is getting low and I'm thinking if it was possible to stream from an external USB 2.0 HD. Since the possible throughput is 300MB/sec a certain amount of streaming should be possible, I assume.
Of couse, I can always exchange my internal HD, but somehow I never like the idea of doing any kind of surgery on my music PC.

One has to take into account that I am "only" using the Special Edition, and the number of samples is much lower there, I assmume?


tele

[cm]

tele, in case of emergency you could use USB 2.0 too, but be aware that the theoretically possible troughput for USB 2.0 is 480 Mb/s (megabit per second) which is 60 MB/s (megabyte per second) minus a significant overhead.
as often mentioned: don't expect more than 25 MB/s from the disk itself for streaming and keep in mind all devices on a USB bus share the bandwith, so you might notice unexpected hickups now and then.
christian