Raptor vs WD GP RE2? (1 Viewer)

[BillyTheFish]

I've been running my system from a WD GP RE2 drive as it's quiet, runs cool and my system is passively cooled.

I've had to send it and a raptor I had in another system back as they've gone a bit dodgy.

The raptor is a spare so I was wondering if I should stick it in my HTPC. I currently get jerky, stuttery live TV (freeview sd) so I was wondering if I use the raptor for timeshifting and possibly as the system/page drive and then the GP for storage whether that would help my problem or not.

I hadn't used the HTPC for a long time and have only just got round to setting it up again. The jerky/stutteryness might be due to the latest release of MediaPortal -I've read that some people are having problems. I suppose it might be also due to drive errors on the dodgy drive I'm currently running off!

Anyway, I'm trying to work out where to re-install when I get the RMA replacements from WD. Raptor or just stick with the one WD GP drive.

 

[BillyTheFish]

Anyone?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

For MP needs a 5400rpm drive is sufficient, as long as their is 2gb of ram, should be well fast enough, and of course quiet even for HD.

Regarding stuttering, I'm a freeview user and never had a problem, except when I was on xp, which needed the amd dual core optimiser installed (see my system) to stop the cool'n'quiet screwing things up if enabled.

 

[BillyTheFish]

Ah ok, thanks, I'll stick with the green power drive then.

I'm on Windows 7 but I will check that I haven't got cool 'n' quiet enabled. I'm not sure what's making it stutter but I'm going to try a fresh install when I get the drive back. I've also got to sort out de-interlacing as I get annoying flickering thin bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

You should not have a problem if on Win7\Vista, cool'n'quiet should be disabled in BIOS, as the OS looks after things, also the optimiser is now part of the amd cpu driver, so again not necessary.

Good luck in finding what the bottleneck is that's screwing playback, but definitely try without any plugins enabled first.