<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Mark Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>></span> 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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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have a Synology NAS and was using it to record direct from MythTV to the NAS. I ended up changing it to an old drive I had laying around after a few weeks of doing this. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It worked fine, I was just concerned that I would run out of drive space for the 'Live TV' folder. What I did was direct Live TV to the old drive mount point and store the recordings and everything else on the NAS mount point. Synology is shared to the server with NFS. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The only time I have had speed issues was when watching Live TV across subnets within the local house. I had my HDHR on one subnet, MythTV on another, and the workstation on the third. When doing this, I would get pixelation between Myth Backend and the HDHR. Moving the HDHR to the same subnet resolved this issue. All networking is gigabit, but I have a feeling that the NIC on the backend couldn't keep up with everything. I am running vmware esxi on it and everything was passing through the single NIC.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>