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<blockquote data-quote="RobNorthcott" data-source="post: 702268" data-attributes="member: 57999">The old drive was a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB (a low-energy drive).&nbsp; The new one is a Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB (which is a speed-optimised one).I was - that's why I tried swapping the drive.&nbsp; I suspect it was the random access/seek time that was too slow on the green drive when writing two files at once.&nbsp; The black drive is considerably faster, and still very quiet in my Antec Fusion case.&nbsp; Quite a bit more expensive though.Since installing the new drive I've only had a couple of overlapping HD recordings, but so far the stutter on overlap seems to be gone.&nbsp; So it SEEMS to have fixed it for me, but I wouldn't like to promise anything...RobThat looks interesting - I have noticed it seems to thrash the drive rather a lot when watching some recordings/channels.Rob</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobNorthcott, post: 702268, member: 57999"] The old drive was a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB (a low-energy drive). The new one is a Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB (which is a speed-optimised one). I was - that's why I tried swapping the drive. I suspect it was the random access/seek time that was too slow on the green drive when writing two files at once. The black drive is considerably faster, and still very quiet in my Antec Fusion case. Quite a bit more expensive though. Since installing the new drive I've only had a couple of overlapping HD recordings, but so far the stutter on overlap seems to be gone. So it SEEMS to have fixed it for me, but I wouldn't like to promise anything... Rob That looks interesting - I have noticed it seems to thrash the drive rather a lot when watching some recordings/channels. Rob [/QUOTE]

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