[mythtv-users] eSATA drive as recording drive

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Nov 7 04:29:10 UTC 2015


On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:39:01 -0500, you wrote:

>After upgrading one of my desktop drives from a 500GB to a 2TB, I now have
>the 500GB just sitting around. Thought I'd add it to my mythbox as
>additional storage. I've run out of SATA ports on my mobo, but I have an
>external SATA dock and an eSATA connector card.
>
>Since the eSATA is as fast as the onboard SATA, any reason not to use it as
>a recording drive or should it be long-term storage/playback only?

It is fine to use an eSATA or USB 3 external drive for recording, as
long as you set up the storagegroup to point to a directory on the
mount point, not the mount point itself.  So if you have the drive
mounted as /mnt/esata, then you should use /mnt/esata/recordings as
the storagegroup directory.  That way, the backend can detect if the
drive is there or not and will not try to record to it if it is not
mounted.  I do this all the time on my laptop.


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