Record on more than one HDD? (1 Viewer)

[Mike_S]

Just a quick question. I have effectively three tuners (one Pinnacle dual, the other a Hauppauge one for the satellite). I have a dedicated 1Tb HDD for the TV recordings, music, videos, etc whilst the programs are on a seoarate HDD. My system struggles a bit when recording 3 or 4 TV programmes at once (and we often watch another at the same time!). I have another HDD lieing around. Would it be better for me to split the recordings across two HDDS? Or will this not make any difference?

 

[rekenaar]

I guess it's possible, but I would think the bottleneck is somewhere else. Maybe the TVCards?
Too lazy to search your TVCard specs...do you know if it is software or hardware encoding cards?

 

[Andrew H]

YES. What do you notice that you say your system struggles a bit? I have two tuners and have each pointing to it's own folder on separate HDDs. I do this specifically to avoid fragmented recordings (which some have reported leads to jittery playback). This way, on the occasion the 2nd tuner needs to record a show, it will not compete for sectors with the first tuner which would lead to each recording being heavily fragmented and a flurry of HDD activity supporting multiple writes. I'm sure your additional tuner is adding to this, but then, how often are you using all three simultaneously? Writing a mpeg-2 stream to a hdd is a low CPU activity 2~4%.

PS love the Grommitt avitar!