Mediaportal TV Server HDD setup... (1 Viewer)

[RhysG]

Hi all, I am very keen to get started using MediaPortal TV-Server on my Windows Home Server. I know it's not officially supported but I have been reading up on it here and see that it can be done so want to give it a try. However, I'm a bit confused as to how to best setup my HDD's for use with TV-Server. Can anyone please comment on this setup for me:

-----outside the Windows Home Server storage pool:
-----------1 x 32GB SSD for timeshift buffer and TV Server program files
-----------1 x 320GB 2.5" 5400RPM SATA for recordings which if desired will then be shuffled off to the WHS storage pool

I chose two 2.5" drives so that I could stuff them in a 3.5" adapter and only have to lose one of my 3.5" HDD bays to the TV-Server setup. Heat shouldn't be much of an issue because only the 320GB drive will be creating any .

Would using an SSD for the timeshift be worth it? Or would I be better off using another 2.5" 5400RPM drive? Would partitioning a single 3.5" 500GB or so drive into timeshift and storage partitions be effective or would performance be impacted?

The WHS is an E6750 2.6GHz CPU, 2GB DDR2-667 and my network is Gigabit if that's helpful.

Thanks for reading, cheers Rhys.

 

[The Dave]

Would using an SSD for the timeshift be worth it? Or would I be better off using another 2.5" 5400RPM drive?

I was wondering the same thing and serching for an answer. I am setting up MP right now but timeshifting seemed to work fine in Win 7 MCE with one drive?

 

[SiLenTYL]

i personally have a simple setup with a single sata2 hdd ..no SSD's involved at all

i dont see any real problems as i only have the 1 tv tuner and everything else streams from either the internet or from my 10/100 networked pc in the other room

perhaps a pc with lots of tuners or when streaming tv channels to other pcs in your network ..it may drop responsiveness..so this is where SSD's will help out