(2012-06-12, 15:50)ViCtuM Wrote: I`m putting together a media pc in the hopes of loading up xbmc. As these are generally shipped barebones i`m curious how big of a hard drive i should be buying. KEEPING IN MIND i have a media collection of over 7000 movies. I have an unused 60gig ssd drive that i was hoping to use but i`m not sure if that would be sufficient for the xbmc os and the scrapped info and cover art. Or is the cover art and info stored on the server end and not on the Operating System hard drive. HELP!
I have 5 XBMC's: 4 on Win7 64 bit Enterprise, one on a iPad Gen 1
I find that on the WIN7 boxes, a 60 GB drive is sufficient for XBMC.
Checking my current install (win764 on an OCZ SSD), it looks like my drive says that it is a total of 55.7 GB, with 29.1 GB used, and still 26.6 GB available.
Of course, I also built a Win7 server with 18TB of drives running MySQL to store my media as well as a centralized DB for all the thumbs and cover art.
Still even if you don't implement MySQL, you would still have room to spare for thumbs and cover art.
Hell, with SSD prices dropping, I just picked up another 64GB SSD for 41.00 ... so not only is it big enough, it could even be super-fast enough.
Disclaimer: As with all things, your milage may vary.
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