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<blockquote data-quote="NickName" data-source="post: 67444" data-attributes="member: 21675">Hi,I would like to request a (hopefully) minor change to Timeshifting. As many users have 1gig+ RAM, it would great to use some of this for a RAM/virtual disk for the Timeshift buffer.Basically, you'd setup a RAM disk and tell MP to use that 'drive' for Timeshifting. The 2 benefits would be:1) the HD drive would not be being continually written to thereby reducing it''s life expectancy and&nbsp;2) it would be 100% silent.Alternatively, for those of us with Flash card readers or USB drives, we could store the timeshift buffer there. As these types of devices are cheap (&amp; quiet), it would not matter if it broke from over-use. This should be a relatively easy change to the setup program (a file selection box) and a modification to store this new path in the Mediaportal.xml(?) file.Regards,Nick Name.P.S. MediaPortal rocks! A big thanks to the Devs.&nbsp; :lol:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NickName, post: 67444, member: 21675"] Hi, I would like to request a (hopefully) minor change to Timeshifting. As many users have 1gig+ RAM, it would great to use some of this for a RAM/virtual disk for the Timeshift buffer. Basically, you'd setup a RAM disk and tell MP to use that 'drive' for Timeshifting. The 2 benefits would be: 1) the HD drive would not be being continually written to thereby reducing it''s life expectancy and 2) it would be 100% silent. Alternatively, for those of us with Flash card readers or USB drives, we could store the timeshift buffer there. As these types of devices are cheap (& quiet), it would not matter if it broke from over-use. This should be a relatively easy change to the setup program (a file selection box) and a modification to store this new path in the Mediaportal.xml(?) file. Regards, Nick Name. P.S. MediaPortal rocks! A big thanks to the Devs. :lol: [/QUOTE]

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