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View Poll Results: What is the most stable OS in your opinion | |||
Windows 98 | 0 | 0% | |
Windows 2000 | 1 | 0.73% | |
Windows NT4 SP2 | 0 | 0% | |
Windows XP Proff | 79 | 57.66% | |
Windows ME | 0 | 0% | |
Windows Home Server | 17 | 12.41% | |
Windows Server 2003 | 12 | 8.76% | |
Vista Home/Premuim | 9 | 6.57% | |
Vista Business | 5 | 3.65% | |
Linux | 14 | 10.22% | |
Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll |
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I doesn't seem that long ago that I was using a PDP11 with two 8" floppy drives (no hard drive) running CP/M.
However, I have to say WHS is the best I've used so far. I had an automatic reboot scheduled once a week to keep XP stable. I've only been running WHS for nearly 2 months, but so far so good. Of course it is just as likely to be the hardware that is more stable. I upgraded from an Athlon64 3200+ to an Intel Q6600. Judging by the horsepower that appears will be necessary to detect commercials in h.264 files, I'm very glad I went with the quad core. Aloha, Mike |
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I'm the second Vista Business voter But Stanger is right, if you can't set up a stable box in the first place, the OS doesn't matter.
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finally found the problem, I think. Looks like the CPU fan was dusty and air circulation was poor in the case. Blew everything out and decided to leave the side open. Now I'm in the low 50's C and no reboots in quite a while.
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Server: MS Win7 SP1; FX8350 (H2O cooled); 8GB RAM; Hauppauge HVR-7164 (OTA); HVR-885 (OTA); SageTV 9.1.5.x; 12+TB Sage Storage Clients: HD300 x2; HD200 x2; Placeshifter Service: EPB Fiber (1Gb); OTA (we "cut the cord"); Netflix, Hulu, etc. |
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Those XP 3200's run hot to begin with (if I am not mistaken they were the last XP made before the switch to the Athlon64's). It's amazing how sometimes its the little things that cause us so much grief!
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Sage Server: AMD Athlon II 630, Asrock 785G motherboard, 3GB of RAM, 500GB OS HD in RAID 1 and 2 - 750GB Recording Drives, HDHomerun, Avermedia HD Duet & 2-HDPVRs, and 9.0TB storage in RAID 5 via Dell Perc 5i for DVD storage Source: Clear QAM and OTA for locals, 2-DishNetwork VIP211's Clients: 2 Sage HD300's, 2 Sage HD200's, 2 Sage HD100's, 1 MediaMVP, and 1 Placeshifter |
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interesting to hear. I just build 2 AMD 4000+ dual-cores for someone else and both are in the low 30s idle @ 1800 rpm.
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Server: MS Win7 SP1; FX8350 (H2O cooled); 8GB RAM; Hauppauge HVR-7164 (OTA); HVR-885 (OTA); SageTV 9.1.5.x; 12+TB Sage Storage Clients: HD300 x2; HD200 x2; Placeshifter Service: EPB Fiber (1Gb); OTA (we "cut the cord"); Netflix, Hulu, etc. |
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Vista Business Installed 7/07...Vista Business SP1 still going strong. Patch re-boots only.
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I'd also have to vote for OSX. Started with a Mac firewire encoder under Tiger (because the Windows cable box drivers didn't work for me) and, eventually, moved to a Leopard box, running both SageTV server and the firewire encoders. Rock solid.
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Boing
This question has been asked a few times recently so it may be of interest to those guys.... |
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WHS, no doubt...
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Would be interesting to see the results of what is the most unstable platform for SageTV.
I may in the minority here, but my server is pushing an SD TV directly as well as recording as a service. I had issues with XP Pro, not on the recording side, but on the playback side. I just upgraded to Vista Business (this weekend) and so far so good. But my experience has been short and I therefore did not respond to the survey. |
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My server runs my lounge setup, and serves 2 clients. I use XP Home, and haven't had many issues. And those I have had were fixed by upgrading the odd driver after a service pack. Neither of my clients have had an issue in about a year. Both running XP
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Antec Sonata III, Abit AN-M2HD, AMD 4200+, Thermalright SI-128 Cooler, 2GB OCZ DDR2, 2x500Gb + 1x1Tb Samsung Spinpoint SATA II, Hauppauge Nova-T500, Technotrend 3200-S2 with CI, Oasis II CAM. Windows XP Home SP3, Logitech Harmony 525. Logitech DiNovo Edge |
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You forgot the "Any of the above, if you just leave it alone" option.
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In my limited experience, WHS is rock solid. Once I got everything working right my WHS PC has been trouble free. Not a single crash, no missed recordings, it just works.
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Server: Windows 8x64, ASUS P8 H67-M Pro Micro ATX, Core i5, 8 RAM, 14TB running latest Sage Clients: HD200, HD300, Win7 Desktop Capture Devices: Hauppauge Colossus & 1 HDHR, TV Service: Verizon FIOS |
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Agreed
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i use vista ultimate.
i haven't tried on premium, but i have an upgrade copy. now if only i had a copy of xp media center to upgrade from xD
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