[mythtv-users] advice on recording direct to NAS

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:51 PM Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  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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I've previously recorded to my syncology NAS, and just recently last Friday
moved back to using it (I moved away from it not for performance reasons,
but space reasons. I moved back after I upgraded my NAS drives and moved my
backend to a Raspberry Pi 2). I share the folder off my NAS via NFS and
have set MythTV to keep 100GB free space (so I can move files to the NAS
without worrying about free space).

I've not seen any performance issues recording to the NAS. I've got a HD
Homerun Prime.
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