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<blockquote data-quote="Neild7744" data-source="post: 1041383" data-attributes="member: 142955">Hello,&nbsp;Right Im after some advice...&nbsp;I have 2 computers in my house, one in my lounge is my TV server and one in my bedroom is my client.&nbsp;I have my 'tvtimeshiftbffer' folder and 'recorded TV folder on a dedicated hard drive.&nbsp;Last night my girlfriend was trying to watch a HD programme i recorded a few days ago. Mediaportal was also recording TV at the same time. I also wanted to watch more recorded tv on the client. In total mediaportal was trying to play 2 HD video files from the same drive, whilst recording.&nbsp;I encountered stuttering on the client PC, and my girlfriend said when she was trying to fast forward through the commercials the video would go blank and not respond.&nbsp;My first thought is the read/write speed of my HDD cant cope with trying to play 2 HD videos whilst recording HD at the same time? As soon as mediaportal stopped recording live TV, my girlfriend said she could fast forward correctly the recorded tv ok.&nbsp;My proposed solution then is to improve performance by...&nbsp;1) Creating a ramdisk as RAM drive speeds are much faster and use a dedicated 1GB partition for this?2) Somehow split or seperate my HDD so I have a dedicated drive for live tv thats being recorded and another for recorded tv? - Is this practical? My idea is that i would set a tv programme to record within MP. This would start recording on say drive C:, once this has finished recording it would then be moved to say drive D:. So in MP you could only ever watch a recording once the full programme has been recorded and moved, that way minimising the HDD useage?&nbsp;There maybe a simpler solution...not sure?&nbsp;Thanks[DOUBLEPOST=1384858855][/DOUBLEPOST]I have kind of proved this last night, when i stopped trying to watch recorded tv, and started to watch TV series which are loaded onto another drive. They play fine.&nbsp;I have software for creating a ramdisk, if my PC reboots the ramdisk drive is gone, how do i configure my PC to autocreate a ram drive on boot up?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neild7744, post: 1041383, member: 142955"] Hello, Right Im after some advice... I have 2 computers in my house, one in my lounge is my TV server and one in my bedroom is my client. I have my 'tvtimeshiftbffer' folder and 'recorded TV folder on a dedicated hard drive. Last night my girlfriend was trying to watch a HD programme i recorded a few days ago. Mediaportal was also recording TV at the same time. I also wanted to watch more recorded tv on the client. In total mediaportal was trying to play 2 HD video files from the same drive, whilst recording. I encountered stuttering on the client PC, and my girlfriend said when she was trying to fast forward through the commercials the video would go blank and not respond. My first thought is the read/write speed of my HDD cant cope with trying to play 2 HD videos whilst recording HD at the same time? As soon as mediaportal stopped recording live TV, my girlfriend said she could fast forward correctly the recorded tv ok. My proposed solution then is to improve performance by... 1) Creating a ramdisk as RAM drive speeds are much faster and use a dedicated 1GB partition for this? 2) Somehow split or seperate my HDD so I have a dedicated drive for live tv thats being recorded and another for recorded tv? - Is this practical? My idea is that i would set a tv programme to record within MP. This would start recording on say drive C:, once this has finished recording it would then be moved to say drive D:. So in MP you could only ever watch a recording once the full programme has been recorded and moved, that way minimising the HDD useage? There maybe a simpler solution...not sure? Thanks[DOUBLEPOST=1384858855][/DOUBLEPOST]I have kind of proved this last night, when i stopped trying to watch recorded tv, and started to watch TV series which are loaded onto another drive. They play fine. I have software for creating a ramdisk, if my PC reboots the ramdisk drive is gone, how do i configure my PC to autocreate a ram drive on boot up? [/QUOTE]

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