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[DocLotus]

I've always experienced sluggish TV channel changing (channel hopping) in MC. This goes back a very long way.

What's weird is it seems to come & go & I can't put my finger on just what is happening at the exact moment the sluggishness returns.

I was recording to a Western Digital green drive which spins at around 5400 RPM. This is no barn burning drive, it is meant to run cool & quite not fast.

I have a couple of old SSD's that have been out of service for about a year & thought that just maybe using them to record TV shows might allow MC to change channels faster while a show is recording.

So far it seems to help a little, I believe I see less sluggishness but it is still there sometimes.

What are your thoughts on this? Anyone else see any difference recording to an SSD vs. a old HD?

[fooze]

Recording TV would be one of the few things you can do on your computer that isn't greatly enhanced by using an SSD. An SSD's greatest strength is it's random access speed, and recording is mostly sequential writes. As long as your WD drive is fast enough to record (it is), you won't see much of a performance improvement, if any.

Could it be that your drives are going to sleep? Maybe check your power options.

[DocLotus]

Recording TV would be one of the few things you can do on your computer that isn't greatly enhanced by using an SSD. An SSD's greatest strength is it's random access speed, and recording is mostly sequential writes. As long as your WD drive is fast enough to record (it is), you won't see much of a performance improvement, if any.

That's kind of what I've been wondering about (a sneaking suspicion that the WD drives were "good enough").

Could it be that your drives are going to sleep? Maybe check your power options.

No, already turned off all sleep modes for instant response on all drives.