November 24, 201213 yr Hi, If I have one hdd which is constantly under load (downloading lots of torrents, uploading, etc.) and i have some movies on the same disk, i guess it might slow down xbmc playback if, at the same time, torrents are at maximum speed and I am watching full hd BluRay...? However if I put movies on the second disk, which is just for storage only, will it work (play) without any load impact from the first, 'hot', disk? How the whole load distribution from cpu and memory divide? If I'm watching movies from disk2, should I stop load on disk1 or should I not bother because disks will be operating independently (from the system-load point of view)? What do you think.
November 24, 201213 yr Disks should be independent. The bandwidth required for streaming a movie is low, it shouldn't be impacted by other writes IMO.
November 24, 201213 yr Author Yes, it's low, but when there are like 50 different small parts written/or read, to the same disk (and because of parity, double read/write) at the same time, at ~300Mbps, then it may be on the limit. Probably. Or not. I wonder, if I move torrents to one disk and movies to second - will there be difference or not.
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