[mythtv-users] Speed/disk access, multiple tuners, multiple myth drives

[Bobby Gill]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>  How much RAM do you have and what is your CPU?
>
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> *From:* Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com>
> *To:* Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:55 PM
> *Subject:* [mythtv-users] Speed/disk access, multiple tuners, multiple
> myth drives
>
> My Mythbox specs are a PVR-150 and drive is a WD Sata 320gb 16mb cache.
>
> Currently if the tuner is recording and I try to watch a previous recording
> at the same time, I notice slowdown in responsiveness for things like
> rewinding/forwarding and whatnot. Now if I add another tuner, would that
> make things smoother for playback?
>
> Or another scenario I'm pondering to get things smoove is that I'm thinking
> of adding a Seagate 32mb cache drive. Now could I have Myth set up so that
> it records LiveTV to one drive and keeps recordings on another?So if it were
> to be recording Live TV while I'm watching a previous recording, surely
> things would be faster.
>
> Just a bit confused on this, trying to get it a lil smoother as even
> deleting files on the drive causes playback to pause, and I have the delete
> files slowly option in mythtv-setup checked.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob
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1.2gb ram, P4 3.4ghz EE.

Bob
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