[mythtv-users] How many simultaneous recordings on one drive?

Kris B. krisbee at krisbee.com
Wed Sep 28 16:33:42 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 5:21 PM, "Mike Perkins"
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> It makes more sense to spread your recordings over more than one disk.
> One disk 
> per simultaneous recording is what you ought to be aiming for, the head
> movement 
> is negligable in that case. Not to mention, with storage groups the
> number of 
> disks is immaterial, plus if one fails, you don't lose everything.

Wel, that's the thing - the system it is on is older, and I don't think:
1. It would be able to handle another drive
2. I don't have the money for another drive

Mostly, #1 - I had tried adding a third PCI Tuner and the system just
wouldn't have it.  Again, using xfs on the myth recording drive (SATA,
1.5), so far I haven't noticed a problem recording two things while
streaming a third... but it seems that there is debate whether or not
adding more is wise, huh?

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  Kris B.
  krisbee at krisbee.com



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