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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 798508" data-attributes="member: 111675"><p>Hi Porky,</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, all the best deals out are for DDR3.</p><p></p><p>I picked up 8GB of Mushkin Silverline RAM (2 x Sticks of 1333Mhz) for £29.99 only a few weeks ago and it has gone up slightly now to £31.99 (this was from Aria, though Ebuyer also have some pretty good deals at the moment).</p><p></p><p>I did read in Micromart this week that DDR3 is set to start creeping up slightly, thus I need to get my skates on and get the extra ram now if I want to go ahead as planned.</p><p></p><p>Having thought about it, I think that I what I am going to do for the time being is keep my OS on a partition on one of my hard drives but use the a 4GB Ram drive for time shifting (and keep the remaining 4GB for the system).</p><p></p><p>I note that you said that you really need 8GB of RAM disk to benefit for time shifting. I don't suppose you remember very roughly why you thought 4GB was not enough do you? Also what set up do you have?</p><p></p><p>I am planning on getting the BGT3600 (2 x DVB-T2 and 2 x DVB-S2) shortly and getting rid of my HVR-2200 and Nova-S2. With four tuners, that means that I can assign a gig to each. Very roughly, I think SD records at about 2GB per hour and at four times that on HD, so I could time shift for half an hour on a SD channel or 7.5 minutes on high definition.</p><p></p><p>Is this roughly the same conclusion you reached (i.e. why you though 8GB for timeshifting alone was necessary)?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 798508, member: 111675"] Hi Porky, Unfortunately, all the best deals out are for DDR3. I picked up 8GB of Mushkin Silverline RAM (2 x Sticks of 1333Mhz) for £29.99 only a few weeks ago and it has gone up slightly now to £31.99 (this was from Aria, though Ebuyer also have some pretty good deals at the moment). I did read in Micromart this week that DDR3 is set to start creeping up slightly, thus I need to get my skates on and get the extra ram now if I want to go ahead as planned. Having thought about it, I think that I what I am going to do for the time being is keep my OS on a partition on one of my hard drives but use the a 4GB Ram drive for time shifting (and keep the remaining 4GB for the system). I note that you said that you really need 8GB of RAM disk to benefit for time shifting. I don't suppose you remember very roughly why you thought 4GB was not enough do you? Also what set up do you have? I am planning on getting the BGT3600 (2 x DVB-T2 and 2 x DVB-S2) shortly and getting rid of my HVR-2200 and Nova-S2. With four tuners, that means that I can assign a gig to each. Very roughly, I think SD records at about 2GB per hour and at four times that on HD, so I could time shift for half an hour on a SD channel or 7.5 minutes on high definition. Is this roughly the same conclusion you reached (i.e. why you though 8GB for timeshifting alone was necessary)? Thanks for your help. [/QUOTE]
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