Can I Have Each Capture Source Record To A Different Hard Drive

[jimmy_is_great]

I have 2 Hauppauge Nova T DVB cards soon to get a 3rd but I am concerned about the fragmentation of the video files it really thrash the drive and stutters a little on playback when recording 2 programs and watching a video file from the same drive.

Can I tweak the settings so that each card uses a separate disk drive? Or has anyone come up with any tweaks/settings to help? (I use windows 2k) Would having NCQ enabled help?

At the moment I have 2 250gb Samsung p120s both on just sata150 so no NCQ enabled. I currently have Norton speed disk scheduled to defrag the drive during downtime but it doesn't help much with the above scenario. Occasionally I might be recording 3 programs simultaneously will I hit bottleneck with the single drive?

[sub]

No, this is not currently possible.

[DeadRun]

Although it is not possible within GBPVR to make this happen, it would be a pretty simple thing to write a batch file to automatically move the file (mpg) to the other drive. You could launch this through postprocessing.bat or some other scheduled batch file.

I automatically move all recrdings to a different box to process all the comskip, comlean, etc.

Be aware that if you move the files from the original recordings location, they will be removed from the GBPVR database, unless you have the config.xml file set to not delete removed files. The real importance of this is in the avoidance of duplicate recordings. But you could move the file and update the database with the new location, but this is a little (read lot) more complicated.

If you know exactly what you want to do, I can probably give you some help.

[dazzle]

jeff's VideoArchive plugin can be used to move recordings to a different drive automatically, look it up in the wiki, it might do what you need...

[fatbaldbob]

How about setting up raid in the administrators section of the control panel in Windows - you may need another drive to make any speed difference, but this would automatically share the load across all two/three drives at once.