[mythtv-users] Shingled (SMR) hard drives

[Jon Boehm]

I moved my MythTV recordings from a SMR drive to a 1TB SSD last year
because the playback interface was overvably slow during big events like
the Super Bowl or New Years Eve, (multiple recordings all with
commercial scan etc).  Since then, viewing has been as fast as expected.
My Kodi content is still on the SMR drive with no trouble.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:06 AM Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On 2/3/22 08:45, Werner Mahr wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2022, 17:11:26 CET schrieb Steve Greene:
> >> Given that recordings are using large files accessed sequentially, is
> the
> >> potential slowness of a shingled hard drive a real problem for a
> backend?
> >> Anyone have first hand experience?
> > I have 3 SMR-drives in an USB-C Bay. Each addressed single, no RAID. I
> don't
> > use recordings, as I mainly archive my bought discs, so filesizes should
> be
> > compareable.
> >
> > Usually the discs write the data "unsorted" somewhere and later the
> > "reshingle" them, you can hear them start working when just nothing
> happens on
> > the machine.
> >
> > Long story short, reading and writing to them had no impact on my daily
> work
> > compared to before shingled drives have been mounted.
> >
> I use a 5TB shingled drive to back up my computer using "Back in Time". It
> is painfully slow currently getting a speed of
> 11.73MB/s, and I have seen slower.
>
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