[8ball]

Hi

I wondered if anyone can tell me, when I stream on KODI, will/does it write to my system drive (an SSD) even if its installed on an HDD? I would have thought not but something is burning through writes like mad (32GB a day / 11TB a year) and I have moved KODI onto HDD and Firefox cache into RAMdrive...but still the SSD writes are massive, and these are basically all i use on the PC

so if anyone can tell me if it still writes to the system drive and if so how do i change this?

thanks

[pkscout]

I wondered if anyone can tell me, when I stream on KODI, will/does it write to my system drive (an SSD) even if its installed on an HDD? I would have thought not but something is burning through writes like mad (32GB a day / 11TB a year) and I have moved KODI onto HDD and Firefox cache into RAMdrive...but still the SSD writes are massive, and these are basically all i use on the PC

Kodi caches stuff to the userdata folder which is located in different places based on OS:

http://kodi.wiki/view/Userdata

If you did the default install then yes, Kodi is probably caching stuff to the SSD. There are likely two choices. First, you can do a symlink (or whatever Windows calls that) from the userdata location to a different location (presumably on your HDD). I don't think you can just do a shortcut, but I'm not sure. Second, since you're on Windows, you could use portable mode.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Windows_FAQ#Portable_mode

I've never tried either of these, but they should work in theory. Hopefully someone will jump in with something concrete.

[PH-SYM]

Portable mode should be easy to implement and then you can be certain where the data is being stored. It might be a good idea to move Kodi outside of the default "program files" folder since Windows likes to protect changes that are made in that folder.