Mp client, how much storage needed? (2 Viewers)

[mr viggo]

I'm going multi seat in a few weeks and am a little confused of where timeshifting and recordings preferably are stored. I plan to put a SSD in the client but how much storage do I need on it? OS = Win7

 

[vinch100]

Hi mr viggo,

if you don't store any media files on it the only things that will be on your client are :

1) The OS
2) MP (I hope )
3) MP Thumbnails
4) MP Fanarts (depending on your skin)
4) a few other tools


For example my client (running XP but it shouldn't change as much with win7) currently use 14 Gb with all XP updates, all MP and drivers packages stored in a folder, 2 MP backups, and several other unneeded things (Yes I know I should cleanup ).

I run X-Factor and so have hundreds of fanarts, and my media db is big enough to have generated a large amount of thumbnails.

I also plan to switch to an SSD (I'm still not sure that it will improve the performances) and I'm pretty sure that 32Gb will be enough

 

[mr viggo]

Thanks

Timeshift and recordings are stored on the dedicated tv server then?

 

[Spragleknas]

Yes .

 

[funkstar]

As a guide, my livingroom client with 4GB ram (will effect the space used for pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys) and a full W7 Ultimate 32bit installation with MP, Total Media Theatre platinum and drivers uses only 15.3GB of the 64GB SSD in there. You can easily get away with a 32GB SSD and still have bags of space for a dedicated MP install.