[mythtv-users] Fwd: problems

[Mike Perkins]

On 19/08/13 15:40, Jameson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> On 8/17/2013 6:55 AM, John Morra wrote:
>>> All the recording go to the SSD when I want them to go to the 3T HD.
>>>   How do I change that.
>>
>>
>> Go into mythtv-setup, Storage Directories, and give it a path to record
>> to.  "Default" and "LiveTV" are the two built in recording storage
>> groups, or you can define your own that you can specify to use when
>> creating recording rules.
>
> I'm doing this by having everything record to Default which is set to
> my SSD, and then I have another storage group set to /mnt/raid/mythtv
> which is on a different set of HDDs.  I then setup a cron job to move
> any files from my Default location to /mnt/raid/mythtv.  MythTV will
> automatically check through all of your storage groups when looking
> for the file to play it back, or delete it.
>
Unless you are recording insane amounts of simultaneous TV there is no need for 
(i) recording to SSD, (ii) moving it to HDD or (iii) RAID for media storage.

Hard disks are easily fast enough to cope with all but the most unusual of 
configurations, and media storage is not worth the complication, cost or 
additional energy usage of RAID.

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Mike Perkins