Hi guys,
at a certain point I was recording 3 live channels and (trying) to watch a recorded TV show, but the quality of the played file was affected, due to very often break-ups in sound and picture, like it was buffering. I guess it all comes from the fact that I was writing 3x files and trying to read a 4th file from the same HDD. I also guess the bandwidth of the SATA connection was exceeded by these requirements.
[1] is there a certain setting in the HDD properties I need to enable / disable to ensure the best performance? All HDDs are SATA, mobo has 6GB connections.
[2] Is there a plugin (or other "manual" trick) available, to have the completed TV recordings moved to a different folder (on a separate HDD) with only the recordings "in progress" on the first drive? Pretty much the same as uTorrent can be configured to move "completed downloads" to a different location once the download process was completed... I believe this would shed some load from the HDD currently hosting the "recorded TV" folder.
[3] in MediaPortal you can choose to have different "recorded TV" folders for each of the TV tuners. I have never tried to use different folders, I always pressed the button "use same folder for all tuners". If I have separate folders (on separate HDDs) for different tuners, do I still see all the recorded TV shows in the same "Recoded TV" list, or do I have to navigate to different locations trying to find a certain show, considering I do not know which tuner was used to recorded it?
Thanks.