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<blockquote data-quote="Phaedra" data-source="post: 717583" data-attributes="member: 110603">I agree completely.Discussing this with a colleague, he gave me the same arguments : current affordable HDDs can't take advantage of the extra bandwidth of the SATA-600 interface.Motherboard requirements for my TV server will be : (taking into account that I will also be using it as a NAS)- multiple PCI-e slots to allow more tuner cards to be added- dual gigaBit Ethernet : one I will dedicate for streaming to the client in the living room, the other for all other purposes (NAS, streaming to other clients, ...)- low power consumptionFor timeshifting purposes, I thought of doing the experiment of starting a manual timeshifting for a HD channel, and try to estimate the maximum size required per channel.It would be nice if I could fit this into a RAM drive, but I doubt it seriously.&nbsp; It's not purely a performance issue, but also a power consumption issue.&nbsp; An SSD would be too costly, and it also wears out with this type of usage.In the end, a 30 Euro HDD can't be a bad choice...I will try the Maxtor drive to see what it does to the freeze problem....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phaedra, post: 717583, member: 110603"] I agree completely. Discussing this with a colleague, he gave me the same arguments : current affordable HDDs can't take advantage of the extra bandwidth of the SATA-600 interface. Motherboard requirements for my TV server will be : (taking into account that I will also be using it as a NAS) - multiple PCI-e slots to allow more tuner cards to be added - dual gigaBit Ethernet : one I will dedicate for streaming to the client in the living room, the other for all other purposes (NAS, streaming to other clients, ...) - low power consumption For timeshifting purposes, I thought of doing the experiment of starting a manual timeshifting for a HD channel, and try to estimate the maximum size required per channel. It would be nice if I could fit this into a RAM drive, but I doubt it seriously. It's not purely a performance issue, but also a power consumption issue. An SSD would be too costly, and it also wears out with this type of usage. In the end, a 30 Euro HDD can't be a bad choice... I will try the Maxtor drive to see what it does to the freeze problem.... [/QUOTE]

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