Thanks for the tips.
Drivers and BIOS are kept up to date, and I set the Diskeeper defrag utility to run for four hours continuously, come what may. It always completes - even if it just checks to see if there's any further defragging to do - I know just how bad a fragmented disk can get.
Your comment about removing the old tuner reminds me that I must update my sig: the old PVR500MCE is gone, replaced by a quad-tuner HVR4000.
Will try the disk test you suggest - thanks again.
PS: Have run HDtach and I'm getting the kinds of speeds you suggested. I'm really starting to wonder if it's a CPU thing after all.
Drivers and BIOS are kept up to date, and I set the Diskeeper defrag utility to run for four hours continuously, come what may. It always completes - even if it just checks to see if there's any further defragging to do - I know just how bad a fragmented disk can get.
Your comment about removing the old tuner reminds me that I must update my sig: the old PVR500MCE is gone, replaced by a quad-tuner HVR4000.
Will try the disk test you suggest - thanks again.
PS: Have run HDtach and I'm getting the kinds of speeds you suggested. I'm really starting to wonder if it's a CPU thing after all.
- Silent client PVR: HDPlex HS.1 aluminium fanless case / Thin-ITX ASRock H81TM-ITX motherboard / Intel Celeron 1850T CPU / 4GB RAM / 120GB SSD / TBS6982 DBS-S2 [SIZE=1]dual-tuner card / Win10+nPVR+Plex Media Player feeding LG OLED55B6V + Anthem MRX510 AV Receiver / PMC GB1 / B&W / REL speakers.
- Noisy NAS: Xeon / Intel mobo / 16GB RAM / FreeNAS + Ubuntu VMs on VMware ESXi + 12TB RAID[/SIZE] running Plex Media Server
- Noisy NAS: Xeon / Intel mobo / 16GB RAM / FreeNAS + Ubuntu VMs on VMware ESXi + 12TB RAID[/SIZE] running Plex Media Server