[mythtv-users] advice on recording direct to NAS

[Mark Perkins]

Hi all, looking for advice:

Background: I've just lost a second HDD in 6months and its getting very,
very, very annoying.

I have a NAS that would have capacity to record to, but have not done so
because of concern for failed recordings due to potential inconsistencies in
network and / or NAS performance. I run 4 HDD in my mythbackend supporting
30tuners (nominal worst case 8 recordings at a time due to overlap of
pre/post roll).

Does anyone record directly to a NAS folder? How did you share the folder
with your server? Does it work well? Do temporary spikes in network load
(for example someone starting a large download or streaming a HD movie
elsewhere) cause problems? 

Or am I better recording to local drives and using some sort of cron job to
move stuff to the NAS periodically?

Or (thinking on the fly) should I abandon the 4 stand alone drives and set
them up in a RAID array locally?

Any advice gratefully received.
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