Diskless + silent HD capable system as a sagetv client!

[PGPfan]

Insomniac,

I imagine that newmedia42 is aware of your usage scenario. The thing is, it's not just the swap file that gets a lot of writes on the XP OS. There are MANY others, they just aren't as easy to find/re-direct.

I run both my server and client on XPe and have been using EWF for a while on various experiments I've done on my htpc. It works quite well, as does XPe (XPe works EXTREMELY WELL for that matter ) but therein lies the rub. The cost of admission for most folks is prohibitive since you have to buy the XPe developement environment in addition to each 'run-time' license. Most people don't want to spend the required $1k+ just for their htpc's.

It IS however a great way to go. To be honest, there is NO way I'd use a CF card unless I was using EWF...., just too unreliable.

-PGPfan

[insomniac]

Thx for the insight. Ill make sure that if im experimenting with the idea of CF, Ill build a base OS and monitor the read writes to see if its viable or not.

Originally Posted by PGPfan

Insomniac,

I imagine that newmedia42 is aware of your usage scenario. The thing is, it's not just the swap file that gets a lot of writes on the XP OS. There are MANY others, they just aren't as easy to find/re-direct.

I run both my server and client on XPe and have been using EWF for a while on various experiments I've done on my htpc. It works quite well, as does XPe (XPe works EXTREMELY WELL for that matter ) but therein lies the rub. The cost of admission for most folks is prohibitive since you have to buy the XPe developement environment in addition to each 'run-time' license. Most people don't want to spend the required $1k+ just for their htpc's.

It IS however a great way to go. To be honest, there is NO way I'd use a CF card unless I was using EWF...., just too unreliable.

-PGPfan