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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi all, looking for advice:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Background: I’ve just lost a second HDD in 6months and its getting very, very</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, very</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> annoying.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have a NAS that would have capacity to record to, but have not done so because of concern</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">failed recordings due to potential inconsistencies in network and / or NAS performance. I run 4 HDD</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> in my mythbackend supporting 30tuners (nominal worst case 8 recordings at a time due to overlap</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">pre/post roll).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Does anyone record directly to a NAS folder? How did you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">share the folder with your server? Does it work well?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Do temporary spikes in network load (for example someone starting a large download or streaming a HD movie elsewhere) cause problems?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Or am I better recording to l</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ocal drives and using some sort of cron job to move stuff to the NAS periodically?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Or (thinking on the fly) should I abandon the 4 stand alone drives and set them up in a RAID array locally?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Any advice gratefully received.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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