On 13 March 2013 21:57, Paul Stimpson <p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> >Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player > >though? > >(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the > >house...) > > > > An OpenElec machine will keep its database and all the downloaded movie > and album art on the boot volume so you do want something quite spritely if > you don't want the GUI to be chunky. I got a 64GB SanDisk SATA SSD from > Novatech for mine for about £40. > > The DB can be anywhere (I share a MySQL DB between three XBMC boxes at home), and with a little fiddling, so can the artwork. And if, as he says, it's only "slightly worse", it won't be clunky... But yeah, given the price of a 32GB CF card against a 'proper' SSD hard drive, there doesn't seem to be much sense in setting out to build with that. But if the bits were all spare in a box, I'd not hesitate to use them.
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