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| Thread ID: 103732 | 2009-10-04 18:57:00 | Faster..? HD or Ram | rd400f (11594) | Press F1 |
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| 816904 | 2009-10-04 18:57:00 | Hi Which is faster when used to "Time Shift" Digital TV with a PCi Tuner card. Should I buy 4G of ram and use it for a Virtual disk or just let the card use the HD. I have heard that the Ram is quicker...as a general question...access time to memory held in the ram is how much quicker than memory held in a HD. Thanks Richard |
rd400f (11594) | ||
| 816905 | 2009-10-04 19:58:00 | Well you'll still have to save whatever using the hdd. Otherwise once you turn the PC off, its gone. Ram is ok (to a point), but not in this case. Space is on a hd, NOT memory. Altho it can be used as memory, but it'll be slow as | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 816906 | 2009-10-04 20:37:00 | It's a non issue if you get a tuner that uses hardware to do any encoding needed. The rest of the job of saving to the HDD is trivial. | linw (53) | ||
| 816907 | 2009-10-04 20:53:00 | If you want timeshifting then you could use RAM...it's been talked about. But live Preview is better (just takes stream direct from tuner to graphics card)...of course now pause/rewind from this option. As I said in your other thread, harddrives are fast enough. If you're worried about the harddrive life you could try and play around with setting a cache drive to RAM disk, or USB key... |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 816908 | 2009-10-04 21:54:00 | Modern hard drives are fast enough, there is no need for a RAM drive. A hardware encoding tuner card will save you on CPU time though (for Digital TV I don't think it matters as the stream is already encoded before you get it as far as I know) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 816909 | 2009-10-04 23:51:00 | Hi Which is faster when used to "Time Shift" Digital TV with a PCi Tuner card. Should I buy 4G of ram and use it for a Virtual disk or just let the card use the HD. I have heard that the Ram is quicker...as a general question...access time to memory held in the ram is how much quicker than memory held in a HD. Thanks Richard RAM is obviously much quicker, but absolute overkill. HDs are fine. |
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