[mythtv-users] Moving through "Watch Recordings" slow?

Mike Dent mcdent at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 20:41:36 UTC 2006


On 12/13/06, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/06, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I notice that when moving though the "Watch Recordings" menu, there
> > seems to be about
> > a 3 second delay when moving up or down through the recordings.
>
> Are your recordings on a dedicated hard drive and do you have power
> management for your hard drives enabled in your BIOS? If your hard
> drive spins down, the I would expect this delay when you "wake it up".
> But, if you see a delay when moving between any recordings all the
> time, then it's something different.
>
> As to whether it's good to let your drive spin down via power
> management - that's probably a whole other discussion - depends on
> whether you care more about power usage and noise or drive lifespan.
>

Hi Ross,
they are on the same disk as the system. The delay is pretty consistent.
It's not related to the disk spining down, I'm sure of that.

thanks
Mike

> -Ross
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