2011-04-25, 23:48
Hi,
I use XBMC on a windows machine for some time and I am more or less happy with it. As my HTPC is right in my living room I spent some effort on reducing the noise (CPU cooler, case cooler) and was rather successful.
The noisiest part now are the two harddsics.
My idea is to purchase a Solid State Drive (SSD) for the system partition and stick to the large cheap regular Harddisks for the Media Files. (I cannot afford purchasing SSD's for all the media files ;-)
Now I would need a feature that allows me when I start playing a movie to automaticially cache the (potentially large) file on the SSD and then power down the harddisk. It would need to specify a cache path and XBMC would need to try to cache the whole file in advance, so that powering down the Harddiscs makes sense.
Is something planned in XMBC? (Or even already there and I just didn't find it?)
Best regards,
Mike
I use XBMC on a windows machine for some time and I am more or less happy with it. As my HTPC is right in my living room I spent some effort on reducing the noise (CPU cooler, case cooler) and was rather successful.
The noisiest part now are the two harddsics.
My idea is to purchase a Solid State Drive (SSD) for the system partition and stick to the large cheap regular Harddisks for the Media Files. (I cannot afford purchasing SSD's for all the media files ;-)
Now I would need a feature that allows me when I start playing a movie to automaticially cache the (potentially large) file on the SSD and then power down the harddisk. It would need to specify a cache path and XBMC would need to try to cache the whole file in advance, so that powering down the Harddiscs makes sense.
Is something planned in XMBC? (Or even already there and I just didn't find it?)
Best regards,
Mike