Live TV Buffer vs. Recordings directory - Ideal Placement?

[daphatty]

I'm attempting to fine tune the performance of my PVR and I was wondering if placing the Live TV buffer folder on a separate physical drive from the recordings folder would improve anything. Has anyone noticed any significant performance differences with this configuration?

Also, does anyone know if in-progress recordings utilize the Live TV buffer as a temporary storage location before being written to disk?

[sub]

Also, does anyone know if in-progress recordings utilize the Live TV buffer as a temporary storage location?

No it doesnt.

[ShiningDragon]

Mhm, how about using a RAM-Disk? If you're not using TimeShift and have much memory available, the you could easily use your RAM as Buffer (which i personally prefer: Better for temperature and life of your Harddisk).

But i hadn't tested it myself for now.

[HtV]

Afai can see you have 4 tuners, so I would put the live-tv buffer on a different drive from the recordings. If you have 3 hi-quality recordings going and are watching Live-tv (timeshifting), that causes a lot of hdd traffic. So I would say it wouldn't hurt to have the live-tv buffer on a seperate drive. If you don't use timeshift it makes no difference.

Edit: To Shining Dragon: a ramdisk seems a little small to me say you have a ramdisk of 500 MB that would be only about 1 hr timeshifting (if I got my math right)
edit nr 2: sorry, you said: without timeshift, well I think you won't use the buffer, so there's no need for a ramdisk.