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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1117627" data-attributes="member: 82144">I can understand this.Thing is: a 15 Mb/s HD stream is only 1.875 MB/s. In most cases that's &quot;chump change&quot; even for an HDD.IMHO it is seriously worth putting aside your concern and actually trying this scenario with some dummy recordings.Everybody has different opinions about this.The lifetime of SSDs is usually measured as a function of the number of write operations the drive can handle. Since timeshifting involves continuous writing, it is obviously going to shorten the life of the drive compared to more &quot;normal&quot; usage patterns. Video and audio aren't 100% uncompressable, but they'd be pretty close to it... which means even the &quot;flash&quot; drives that minimise writing by compression aren't going to be able to work their magic well.The question is: how long will the drive really last... and I can't give you a sure fire answer.You can do the maths if you can get the drive rating, and make up some scenarios with average stream bit rates and client counts. The numbers will probably work out to be several years... but I can't and don't guarantee that.Sorry but like I said before, these are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1117627, member: 82144"] I can understand this. Thing is: a 15 Mb/s HD stream is only 1.875 MB/s. In most cases that's "chump change" even for an HDD. IMHO it is seriously worth putting aside your concern and actually trying this scenario with some dummy recordings. Everybody has different opinions about this. The lifetime of SSDs is usually measured as a function of the number of write operations the drive can handle. Since timeshifting involves continuous writing, it is obviously going to shorten the life of the drive compared to more "normal" usage patterns. Video and audio aren't 100% uncompressable, but they'd be pretty close to it... which means even the "flash" drives that minimise writing by compression aren't going to be able to work their magic well. The question is: how long will the drive really last... and I can't give you a sure fire answer. You can do the maths if you can get the drive rating, and make up some scenarios with average stream bit rates and client counts. The numbers will probably work out to be several years... but I can't and don't guarantee that. Sorry but like I said before, these are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself. [/QUOTE]

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