[mythtv-users] eSATA drive as recording drive

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 November 2015 at 05:05, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Brent Haag <brenthaag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I used to use a ZBOX with its eSATA connection for all recordings and it
>> worked flawlessly for a few years. I agree with Stephen on the mount
>> point/directory.
>>
>
> Thanks for the tips guys. As it turns out, the eSata card that was sitting
> in my computer odds'n'ends box was meant to be attached to a SATA port on
> the mobo and I don't have a free one. So I'll either pick up a PCI card
> that will add a couple of extra internal SATA ports, or I'll just use the
> drive as an external USB storage drive, rather than a recording one.
>
>
>
You can pickup eSATA to SATA (internal connector) from ebay, I'm running a
couple of drives like it now and using them for mythtv recording storage.

Cheers,

Anthony
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