Expansion Thoughts
Posted on July 30, 2011
For now the KDX schedule matches my personal endurance as a listener, usually about 9-hours a day. But the radio beast tends to expand so I am considering adding more hours.
For now the KDX schedule matches my personal endurance as a listener, usually about 9-hours a day. But the radio beast tends to expand so I am considering adding more hours.
However, I worry that running the hard-drive so constantly will wear it out, and it contains tons of audio-files. Sure we try to keep everything backed up, but it seems that a non-mechanical way of streaming would be the smartest thing of all.
An SSD, solid-state-drive, would fill the bill by providing a “no moving parts” solution to streaming. But there’s a catch.
According to PC Mag the XP O.S. is not suitable to SSD performance because it lacks TRIM software, which keeps the SSD from becoming too disorganized… probably the solid state equivalent of de-fragmenting.
Economically it would probably cost more to purchase Vista and an SSD than to simply buy another hard-drive.
Good reason to be undecided.
