![]() ![]() The other 3 towers on the Dell as set as JBOD and have either a set of 3TB or 2TB drives depending when they went into service and how much money I had at the time. One word of advice based on experience, you are better off setting them up as JBOD or pass through if you want that many drive letters.one tower I set to a Raid 0 and actually the overhead of running the software raid on top of everything else makes that drive slower when it is the recorded tv target and I would get stalls on live tv (although all the recordings have been fine). This works well for me and I have four of them on my Dell and four on my HP machine as well. The units themselves have port multiplers so that with the standard two port eSata card you could have two five drive towers each loaded with five 3TB drives. The solution I use is a DAS device from Sans Digital which houses four or five Sata drives (depending on what you get) and comes with a card with external eSata ports. Media Center wants to record to a DAS drive and not a NAS although there are those that have hacked the registry to be able to use a NAS. This gets a bit messy when you have a couple of shows recording and are watching a program and maybe have an extender in the mix as well. Remember there is no such thing as live tv and that would mean the "buffer" would be on the NAS along with other network traffic. There are a number of reason why I wouldn't do that. And if it is possible, are there any settings I need to change in order to make it happen. I would like to know if it's possible to set my TV Record folder as the media server mapped network drive and not record anything on the SSD drive that is physically in my HTPC. I have my media server set up as a mapped network drive on my HTPC. What I would like to do is to set my recordings to record directly onto my media server. I built a media server that I have connected to my gigabit router (my house is wired with Cat 6 ethernet cable). This will speed up load times of WMC as well as other media programs I have installed on my HTPC, but it will severly limit my recording space. I would like to replace my 500GB hard drive with a 120GB SSD drive. Although this setup is adequate, I find that loading up WMC is a bit slow and my hard drive gets filled up rather quickly (I have 3 kids who are always recording cartoon shows). I have enough room in my case for the InfiniTV4 and a 500GB hard drive. I'm using an MSI E350IA motherboard with the AMD E-350 APU.
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