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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 592810" data-attributes="member: 18896">A person with 2GB total memory and 10,000 movies in their collection would have a serious cache init process running in the background then and all sorts of other problems. It just loads as it goes, so you can launch MePo, goto MovPic, browse through a few movies and launch one or more. There really is hardly any HDD access being done then.Pre-load caching could be done, but your scenario is extremly rare.Your main problem is that you can't stand the noise a computer makes when it is doing a normal task of access content from the HDD. You can solve this with a better HDD, or SDD, or even soundproofing your computer (you can buy padding sheets). I've even helped people move the computer out of the way, into a closet or other room to make it silent that way.If you have plenty of memory, you could create a RAMDisk, make a script to copy your MediaPortal programdata into it (or just thumbs), and then configure MePo/MovPic to use that folder. Then on exit of MePo copy the RAMDisk content back to HDD. This will make everything blazing fast and totally silent. But you need a minimum of 4GB system memory then to make that work and keep close eye on RAMDisk free space.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 592810, member: 18896"] A person with 2GB total memory and 10,000 movies in their collection would have a serious cache init process running in the background then and all sorts of other problems. It just loads as it goes, so you can launch MePo, goto MovPic, browse through a few movies and launch one or more. There really is hardly any HDD access being done then. Pre-load caching could be done, but your scenario is extremly rare. Your main problem is that you can't stand the noise a computer makes when it is doing a normal task of access content from the HDD. You can solve this with a better HDD, or SDD, or even soundproofing your computer (you can buy padding sheets). I've even helped people move the computer out of the way, into a closet or other room to make it silent that way. If you have plenty of memory, you could create a RAMDisk, make a script to copy your MediaPortal programdata into it (or just thumbs), and then configure MePo/MovPic to use that folder. Then on exit of MePo copy the RAMDisk content back to HDD. This will make everything blazing fast and totally silent. But you need a minimum of 4GB system memory then to make that work and keep close eye on RAMDisk free space. [/QUOTE]

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