timeshift to flash memory (SD/CF card, USB-Drive) (1 Viewer)

[Owlsroost]

There's a bit more info on setting up Gavotte RAMDISK here - Free Ramdisk for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and 2003 Server My Digital Life - particularly comment 119 from Kirk Enston about the 'ram4g.reg' file (but as kszabo says, getting it to use the extra ram might be hardware dependant).

Tony

 

[kszabo]

DATABASE on ram disk then you'd loose ur database on system crash

yes man that´s why regular backup of RamDisk onto Harddrive! Superspeed RamDisk makes an Image of the RamDisk onto C:/ on every shutdown and loads it on every system start. What you can loose are the the changes since last reboot. Not too risky for me.

MP GUI is much faster with the Database folder in RAMDisk.

Everybody plays with RamDisk on his own responsibility. If someone wants to be on the secure site he should use RamDisk only for Timeshift, nothing else.

 

[robyf]

I think I will use an SSD drive for OS and timeshifting (currently I'm also using ramdisk for timeshifting but it eats too much memory). You could now buy a goot 32GByte SSD for 200$.

 

[RobNorthcott]

Am I really the only person who's running timeshift successfully to a USB flash stick? I can't believe I'm really that lucky. I'd certainly never consider spending £100 on a SSD when a £5 flash drive is doing the job perfectly (and has been for nine months now).

Rob

 

[MyPVR]

Hi,

I'am successfully running the timeshift buffer on a Compact Flash card (SanDisk Extrem III 4GB, NTFS formated) connected to a CF2IDE adapter.

Regards,
MyPVR

 

[kszabo]

I'am successfully running the timeshift buffer on a Compact Flash card

only SDTV or HDTV also? (I guess SDTV as I see your TV Cards). On my setup SDTV (guess ca. 1-3 MBit/s) was not a problem but HDTV (guess >8.000, up to 20.000 MBit/sec)

 

[MyPVR]

Up to now most of tests were done with SDTV (only during the EM HD was available from ARD/ZDF on DVB-C).

But a theoretically calculation looks quite good:

Max write and read speed of the card (SanDisk Extrem III) is 30 MByte/s -> 240MBit/s.

SDTV: 1-5 MBit/s
HDTV: 5-20 MBit/s

If the real bandwidth of the CF card is only 10% of the theoretically one everthing should be fine.

Regards,
My PVR

 

[RobNorthcott]

I'm using both SD and HD (BBC HD, ITV HD) on my system with a cheap USB flash drive. No stuttering at all.

Rob

 

[mdbarber]

With the current cost of cf cards and the wear and tear factor not sure there is any advantage to this at all, maybe cut down on power use but given the cost of a cf@4gb will exceed the cost of an 80gb hdd and last no where near as long.....

 

[RobNorthcott]

With the current cost of cf cards and the wear and tear factor not sure there is any advantage to this at all, maybe cut down on power use but given the cost of a cf@4gb will exceed the cost of an 80gb hdd and last no where near as long.....

I still don't get it - have any of you people actually tried a flash drive or are you just going by some urban legend that it won't work? OK, fine if you've got a machine with loads of spare RAM, use a RAM drive. If you've got money to burn, use a SSD. If you want a complicated flash solution, use a CF card in an adaptor. But my £5 4GB USB flash stick has been working perfectly for over a year now, no stuttering on SD or HD DVB-S channels. What's not to like? If it "doesn't last long", I'll buy another one - £5 a year (if it died tomorrow) is hardly a big problem (and they're even cheaper now).

Rob