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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 731662" data-attributes="member: 111675">Hi there,I am currently building a dedicated server to host media portal.I plan on putting in a WD AV-GP HDD (1.5TB) to do all my recording, a Samsung F4 HDD (2TB) for all my other media - photos, music etc.I don't really want to put time-shifting on either of these drives and decided that it would probably be best to put in a small dedicated hard drive just for time-shifting and the OS (so it is not disastrous if this hard drives goes kaputt from the constant time-shifting).I want to keep heat/noise/energy to a minimum with this third hard drive, thus I have three options:1.&nbsp; Use a small 2.5&quot; laptop hard drive2.&nbsp; Use a small SSD drive - but won't time-shifting to this, wear it out very quickly?3.&nbsp; Put the OS on one of the two hard drives and time shift to a RAM disk - I know very little about this, but how much RAM would I need?&nbsp; I have a few High-definition channels and there is the potential for perhaps three clients to be watching live TV (though this probably wouldn't happen very often).&nbsp; Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 731662, member: 111675"] Hi there, I am currently building a dedicated server to host media portal. I plan on putting in a WD AV-GP HDD (1.5TB) to do all my recording, a Samsung F4 HDD (2TB) for all my other media - photos, music etc. I don't really want to put time-shifting on either of these drives and decided that it would probably be best to put in a small dedicated hard drive just for time-shifting and the OS (so it is not disastrous if this hard drives goes kaputt from the constant time-shifting). I want to keep heat/noise/energy to a minimum with this third hard drive, thus I have three options: 1. Use a small 2.5" laptop hard drive 2. Use a small SSD drive - but won't time-shifting to this, wear it out very quickly? 3. Put the OS on one of the two hard drives and time shift to a RAM disk - I know very little about this, but how much RAM would I need? I have a few High-definition channels and there is the potential for perhaps three clients to be watching live TV (though this probably wouldn't happen very often). Thanks [/QUOTE]

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