[mythtv-users] Batch Download and Archive Recordings With Expanded File Names

tortise tortise at paradise.net.nz
Thu Oct 25 01:32:15 UTC 2012


On 25/10/2012 1:22 p.m., Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 04:21, tortise wrote:
>> I've come to prefer downloading recordings onto HDD's instead of adding
>> more and more drives for stuff I want to keep.
>
> Why not leave these drives permanently attached?  Just get a cheap
> controller card, and only spin them up when you need to access something
> off of them.

Interesting idea that I've also been pondering, I'm up to the 6th large 
(circa 2T) HDD now, the backend case wouldn't cope with its pre-existing 
4 drives.

Given the stimulus of the comment to think about this some more a 
largish case with an old motherboard might be a good repository for 
these, with as you suggest spin up options, or maybe WOL might suffice 
for when I want to look in the archive drives....just turn the whole 
shebang on...  spinning down drives even in this role probably has merit.

I'm not so familiar with server cases, but seems a server case would be 
the thing to get for this.  There are lots of old pc's being flogged off 
these days including servers, I might start looking at these.



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