HDD too slow?

[alex060670]

Hi to all gbPVR users out there,

I am the proud owner of a brand new, very cool and very quiet system which is dedicated to gbPVR only. I has a PVR150 and an XCard.

I decided to buy a 5400 rpm HDD (Samsung SV1604N) which is really silent and cool but seems to be too slow to enable time shifting or in general recording and watching simultaneously - sometimes the movie freezes for parts of a second. If I rewind and watch the same scene again, there is no freezing, so i guess its recorded correctly.

I tried an other HDD (WDC 7200 rpm) and it works fine. But *this* HDD is more than audible! :eek:

I it possible that recording and watching reqire so much bandwith on the IDE channel that this makes a difference?

Greetings, Alex

[Darx-starz]

I tried an other HDD (WDC 7200 rpm) and it works fine. But *this* HDD is more than audible! :eek:

I it possible that recording and watching reqire so much bandwith on the IDE channel that this makes a difference?
Greetings, Alex

Yes you need a fast drive. There are boxes out there that you can put noisy drives in. Google for "Silentmaxx Aluminium Hard Drive Enclosure ". That should do the trick

[Argone]

I think that's not the problem. This drive ist fast enough.
The real bandwith is 39 mb/s. Normally you can record two shows and watch
another at the same time without any problems (like me).

This drive ist not the fastest, that's right. But it's very cool, silent and the
lifetime is much higher.

[sjwaste]

Hi to all gbPVR users out there,

I am the proud owner of a brand new, very cool and very quiet system which is dedicated to gbPVR only. I has a PVR150 and an XCard.

I decided to buy a 5400 rpm HDD (Samsung SV1604N) which is really silent and cool but seems to be too slow to enable time shifting or in general recording and watching simultaneously - sometimes the movie freezes for parts of a second. If I rewind and watch the same scene again, there is no freezing, so i guess its recorded correctly.

I tried an other HDD (WDC 7200 rpm) and it works fine. But *this* HDD is more than audible! :eek:

I it possible that recording and watching reqire so much bandwith on the IDE channel that this makes a difference?

Greetings, Alex

If you want to use a quieter 7200 RPM drive, I'd suggest a Seagate. I have one along side a WD and it's far quieter. Plus Seagate drives all have 5 year warranties. Personally I use the 300GB model, got it for $129 after rebates. Be sure to check http://www.fatwallet.com/c/18 for deals.

[capone]

Seagates used to be crap, but I like my two....nvr hear them.

[sjwaste]

Seagates used to be crap, but I like my two....nvr hear them.

This particular drive is my first IDE Seagate, but I've been using SCSI Seagate drives since the mid 90's and have never had one die. In fact, all of those drives are still working right now. One of them is still on near-constant duty. But the fact that Seagate has retained the 5 year warranty as opposed to other manufacturers who've dropped to 1 and 3 years likely means they put enough QC into their process to put out good drives. If they were ever producing lemons, the 5 year warranty would've gone away too. I personally won't buy a drive with a shorter warranty because I think its indicative of quality. I could be wrong, but then again, why won't the manufacturer stand by it for longer than a year or two?

Anyway, that was long-winded. Sorry

[capone]

My uncle used to design hardware for Avid in the early 90s, and they used to have them die by the rack. I don't remember what it was, but Seagate was working 2x to replace & explain.

That said, I figured they must have worked 2x as hard to make themselves solid after that. They've lived down that bad patch pretty well from what I can see.