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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1106779" data-attributes="member: 82144">HelloWhat is important to you WRT timeshifting and recording?I mean, all solutions - RAMdisk, HDD, SSD - have their strengths and weaknesses.I assume you ask about this because you're interested in channel changing speed.My answer is that's a personal choice. Doing so will shorten the life of the SSD (compared to the situation of not using an SSD for timeshifting). Also IMO it probably doesn't make a huge difference to channel change speed. IMHO the bigger speed factor would probably be tuner driver/hardware and whether MP, TV Server and TV Server's database are running from the SSD. That's why I wouldn't do it.IMHO for most people with only few simultaneous clients/recordings this would make almost zero difference in most cases.In general HDDs will last longer if your usage pattern involves lots of writing (as timeshifting and recording does). SSD cells have a limit to the number of writes they can do before they fail.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1106779, member: 82144"] Hello What is important to you WRT timeshifting and recording? I mean, all solutions - RAMdisk, HDD, SSD - have their strengths and weaknesses. I assume you ask about this because you're interested in channel changing speed. My answer is that's a personal choice. Doing so [I]will[/I] shorten the life of the SSD (compared to the situation of not using an SSD for timeshifting). Also IMO it probably doesn't make a huge difference to channel change speed. IMHO the bigger speed factor would probably be tuner driver/hardware and whether MP, TV Server and TV Server's database are running from the SSD. That's why I wouldn't do it. IMHO for most people with only few simultaneous clients/recordings this would make almost zero difference in most cases. [I]In general[/I] HDDs will last longer if your usage pattern involves lots of writing (as timeshifting and recording does). SSD cells have a limit to the number of writes they can do before they fail. mm [/QUOTE]

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