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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew H" data-source="post: 428129" data-attributes="member: 56239">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!</blockquote>