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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Thanks for the replies.
Another forum member has told me this:
It's a single core 400mhz MIPS chip by Broadcom ( BCM7019), there is another processor but thats reserved for cable modem operations and cannot be used by the Tivo OS. This applies to the Cisco , the samsung version will likely be the same. It does lack a GPU so all the menu rendering has to be done on the cpu.
My Tivo is mostly sluggish whenever its HDD is being accessed, mainly in the my shows section, everything else (on demand, catchup, tv guide, etc) is acceptable. Chances are they are using a really slow HDD, probably to reduce power consumption or heat or the OS has a fragmentation issue. |
Those specs sound more like the Series 3 specifications. The VM box is Dual core.
No GPU shouldn't be an issue and you wouldn't notice a slower hard drive being used.
Without knowing the details of the file system it's hard to comment on the possibility of Fragmentation occurring (and being a problem). All I know is that TiVO has at least 2 partitions, one for the MPEG data (i.e. the recorded streams) and one for the system (i.e. the databse of my shows, wishlists etc...). Fragmentation may occur on the latter partition but my anecdotal evidence that doesn't support this is my trial box, which was delivered to me empty also suffered from the same issues as my 2011 box.
In short either my trial box was refurbished and was delivered in a fragmented state or fragmentation isn't the sole contributor. Seeing as after the trial I had to have my original 2nd box replaced (due to the fact that VM couldn't sort out the fact my box had been offline for several months so needed reactivating) and it too is performing in a sub par manner I'd opt for fragmentation probably not being the route cause of poor performance.
For the record VM/Tivo are either happy with the performance or weren't able to make it quicker. During the recent trial we were asked to time the load times of certain things so they would have had exact figures for what the expected "live" performance would be.