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Old 09-12-2016, 07:26 AM
mgpaulus mgpaulus is offline
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Configuration question

So, I was wondering if there are any advantages to putting windows/sage/Plex on a 256GB SSD drive and having 6 WD Black 4TB drives for recordings, or just stick with 6 WD black drives, make my C: a UEFI drive and put everything on a mechanical spindle? My CDrive is a Seagate 4TB SSHD drive, and I'm not sure that it likes being a recording drive as well as the system drive, so I think I'd like to reconfigure.

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Old 09-12-2016, 08:05 AM
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In my current configuration, my C: drive is a 128K SSD drive. It used to be located on a mechanical drive. I am not sure that it makes much of a difference.

I never used the C: drive for recording. Too many system tasks running that you do not have control of that could cause delays with the drive.
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Old 09-12-2016, 08:36 AM
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Fanart heavy UI's can be considerably faster with the fanart stored on an SSD. Other than that, though, most of sage's UI work is done from RAM.
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Old 09-21-2016, 06:13 AM
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I have a 120 GB SSD boot drive that I run a Sage v9 server from, with a USB 3.0 5 TB mechanical drive that Sage records to. I chose the SSD because Windows (7 Ultimate, 32-bit in my case) boots so much faster and is just so much "peppier" than on a mechanical drive. The original plan was to pry the 5 TB drive out of the enclosure and install it internally (it was on sale), but the USB 3.0 interface turned out to be fast enough to handle multiple HD recordings while watching other programs. I have a second identical one that I keep meaning to set up as additional storage or a mirror of the first, but life and reasons.

I think it's a good idea to have the system disk not be a recording disk, and that's the way I've had it since v6 was new, but a SSD is probably overkill. On the other hand, they're relatively cheap now, so why not? If nothing else, having the system disk being a relatively small SSD with nothing but system/software on it makes it easier to back up (perhaps nightly to one or more of your recording drives?) and recovery from a catastrophic failure a breeze. Relatively.

I do commercial detection, closed caption extraction, thumbnail/mosaic creation, conversion to h264 files (while cropping out black bars and leveling audio), and probably some more stuff on all new recordings. I copy the recordings to SSD, do all the above, then copy the resulting files to the mechanical drive. This is probably not necessary, but I used to have a slower mechanical drive and doing multiple operations on a video file at once really bogged down the whole system. Not a problem with an SSD.

Initial plan was to record new shows to the SSD, do all the stuff, then copy the resulting files to the mechanical drive. This was before I realized how fast the USB 3.0 interface was.

Correction! I thought I put a 120 GB SSD in Mr Media-PC, but it turns out I actually put a 480 GB in there. Of which I'm currently only using 31 GB. I think I was afraid that 120 GB wouldn't be enough, and the 480 model wasn't that much more expensive than the 240 model. Again, overkill. I started out Sage with a little <500 GB mechanical drive that was so slow I couldn't record and watch at the same time, so I think I've been overcompensating ever since.
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:48 PM
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Troycheek, what do you use for conversion, especially the black bar cropping and audio leveling?
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