<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:51 PM Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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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MythTV Forums: <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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). </div><div><br></div><div>I've not seen any performance issues recording to the NAS. I've got a HD Homerun Prime. </div></div></div>