Hdd, ssd, USB or nas

[scottmcmullan8]

Hi all

Just curious as to what way you have your boxes set up and what you think is the best setting?

Does the box perform better with the epg on flash memory like a USB or ssd? Or does this decrease the life of the disk? What is performance like compared to a normal hdd?

And finally comparing this to performance over a NAS what would you say is the best in terms of performance?

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[Rob van der Does]

you are only talking about EPG, right?

Well, EPG is always in RAM, so no worries about that.
And EPG.dat is a kind of hibernation file; it stores the EPG data when E2 closes down and it reads it again when E2 starts up. So for performance the actual location isn't important at all, as long as it is available at boot time. The only bad place for the file is internal flash, as sometimes the file gets corrupt and grows incredible big; this will stop the box from working at all.

[scottmcmullan8]

you are only talking about EPG, right?

Well, EPG is always in RAM, so no worries about that.
And EPG.dat is a kind of hibernation file; it stores the EPG data when E2 closes down and it reads it again when E2 starts up. So for performance the actual location isn't important at all, as long as it is available at boot time. The only bad place for the file is internal flash, as sometimes the file gets corrupt and grows incredible big; this will stop the box from working at all.

Cool that makes sense.

What about for the likes of recording and media - has anyone noticed any major differences in performance whether storing on an SSD, standard HDD or NAS?

[Rob van der Does]

Recording doesn't require any performance at all, as we're speaking about large files. This is completely different from PC-usage, where many (very) small files are present, as well as fragmentation.
Even the slowest HDD you can find won't give you any (noticeable) performance issue.
Important factors for internal HDD's are speed (as slow as possible, so that means 5400RPM or so) and heath. That's the reason many people use 2.5" HDD's (although I never had any issue with my internal 3.5" dedicated PVR HDD's, but not sure if they are still on the market).