Jason Cartwright wrote:
Hello all,
There seem to be a lot of set top box geeks around here, so perhaps
someone can answer a question I have.
With all the recording, deleting, pause functionality today’s PVRs
have, and the large volume of data I’d imagine its shifting around,
doesn’t the hard disk get really fragmented? Does the software deal
with this, or does it not bother because streaming the content off the
disk even when its fragmented not a very intensive task?
Cheers!
Jason
This question came on dl.tv (great weekly video podcast) a while back.
Theres software to stop it being too fragmented. Be warned this doesn't
solve the problem 100% but enough to keep most boxes clean enough for a
few years.
There were some PVR boxes which would clean up while on standby.
Anyway theres more stuff here -
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-technical-discussions/708-how-fragmentation-handled.html
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