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<blockquote data-quote="giantjoebot" data-source="post: 213667" data-attributes="member: 26289">I don't mean the &quot;System files&quot;, or putting any of the TV recording, including time shifting on it.&nbsp; I'm talking about putting the program files on it.&nbsp; You know like C:\Program Files.&nbsp; The system files would stay on the hard drive.&nbsp; I'll be using a second hard drive for the time shifting and TV recordings, and a bunch of storage drives for Video and music.&nbsp; I'm talking about just the program files.&nbsp; I sort of got the idea after reading this thing someone wrote about installing Media Portal.&nbsp; He said to put your program files on separate partition.&nbsp; The benefits that I think this would have is that all of media portal's, and any other installed software, will be read off the USB flash drive instead of the hard drive.&nbsp; It just offloads some of the work, and since program files are generally small they don't need a huge amount of bandwidth, but can benefit from the low latency that flash drives provide.&nbsp; Plus program files don't get read or wrote that often,&nbsp; so you won't wear out your drive that fast.&nbsp; And a 2 or 4GB drive is easy to backup.&nbsp; So even if something happens to it, you can always replace it.You wouldn't have to use a IDE adapter for just the Program Files.&nbsp; You can just plug it into the back USB.&nbsp; You can even formate the USB drive to NTFS.&nbsp; I plan on using an old USB header adapter that normally goes to one of the PCI slot covers, and taking the metal off, and just tape it to the bottom of the case.&nbsp; That way its not sticking out the back, and get knocked out by the cat or something.Its things like page files, and time shifting that will wear out flash drives, because they are constantly getting read, and written to, but that shouldn't be the case with the Program Files.&nbsp; I'm pretty sure that a flash drive would last a long time this way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="giantjoebot, post: 213667, member: 26289"] I don't mean the "System files", or putting any of the TV recording, including time shifting on it. I'm talking about putting the program files on it. You know like [B]C:\Program Files[/B]. The system files would stay on the hard drive. I'll be using a second hard drive for the time shifting and TV recordings, and a bunch of storage drives for Video and music. I'm talking about just the program files. I sort of got the idea after reading this thing someone wrote about installing Media Portal. He said to put your program files on separate partition. The benefits that I think this would have is that all of media portal's, and any other installed software, will be read off the USB flash drive instead of the hard drive. It just offloads some of the work, and since program files are generally small they don't need a huge amount of bandwidth, but can benefit from the low latency that flash drives provide. Plus program files don't get read or wrote that often, so you won't wear out your drive that fast. And a 2 or 4GB drive is easy to backup. So even if something happens to it, you can always replace it. You wouldn't have to use a IDE adapter for just the Program Files. You can just plug it into the back USB. You can even formate the USB drive to NTFS. I plan on using an old USB header adapter that normally goes to one of the PCI slot covers, and taking the metal off, and just tape it to the bottom of the case. That way its not sticking out the back, and get knocked out by the cat or something. Its things like page files, and time shifting that will wear out flash drives, because they are constantly getting read, and written to, but that shouldn't be the case with the Program Files. I'm pretty sure that a flash drive would last a long time this way. [/QUOTE]

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