What size USB Stick for Permanent Time Shift?

[Midnight Rider]

Just ordered an ET5000 and noticed that some people use a USB stick for PTS, Picons, EPG etc.

Seems like a good idea but what size would anyone recomend that I buy?

Cheers

[RuberDuck]

personally i would not use a USB stick for PTS due to the differing read and write speeds offered by USB sticks as apposed to a dedicated HDD.

[TheCoder]

The flash memory also has a limited number of write cycles. Continuously writing large files over and over to the same memory will soon knacker it !

Generally, standard flash memory isn't really suitable for anything that changes regularly.

[flyingpig]

As said above, the pen drive is way too slow to use for PTS. Fit an internal HDD.

[Midnight Rider]

OK, but I understood the idea of the USB was to avoid having the HDD constantly spinning?

[BadBoyR]

I am using a 4gb USB stick with mine and it has been fine.

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[billyboy2011]

If you set up for max record time of 30 minutes in the PTS config, a 4gb pen/key is suffice.

[garry1312]

OK, but I understood the idea of the USB was to avoid having the HDD constantly spinning?

On my receivers I have always saved PTS to the HDD. I think people at times under estimate a HDD. There are HDD's in plenty of items that require it to constantly function.

Even look at a Sky receiver, the PTS on that is not saved to a USB stick it is saved to the HDD.

For best performance save it to your HDD a pen drive will pack in way way before your HDD will with PTS.