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

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/10/12 02:32, tortise wrote:
> 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.
>
Be careful using old servers. They often sound like jet engines and have a power 
consumption to match!

You can get a 2U server case which will take a standard m/b and power supply 
(low profile cards, though). That may be an option for you. There was a 6-bay 
model like that offered in a one-day sale here for 96 GBP and I missed it. Darn!

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Mike Perkins