Which Hard Drives help (1 Viewer)

[RobTi]

Hi looking for some help on which hard drives to use in my htpc running Mp

At the moment running Raid 0 with 2 x Samsung 250Gb spinpoint SP250C sata drives with the OS and Mp on it.

Next i have a WD 500Gb WD5000AAKS that i use for any downloads or extra programs.

And bringing up the rear i have a Samsung 120Gb SV120H that is used for timeshifting and recording Tv from Mp.

Al media is on a WHS

So looking for any help on how to improve this set up?

Thanks

 

[flintstone99]

AW: Which Hard Drives help

Depends on what you want.
You neither need a raid0 nor a extra hd for time shifting.
So from a speed and capacity point of view for mp every single of the discs in enough.
And one instead of four drives saves power....

Regards
Flintstone

 

[RobTi]

Thanks

The reason for the separate drive for the time shifting was i thought that the drive would get hammered doing time shifting so just used an old drive to be abused

Robert

 

[flintstone99]

AW: Which Hard Drives help

well,
timeshift is in default settings just 6 - 10 files of each 250MB. There is only one written at a time. From a hard disc operation point of view, it is a continuous writing of one file without almost any search and head positioning (and only while watching TV or pausing). Should not have a negative effect on the disc.
However, even if you want to keep a separate disc for this, you could have all the rest on the 500GB drive and get rid of the two 250GB ones
regards
flintstone