[mythtv-users] Little qnap for myth recordings

[Andrew]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> Any gotchas with using a small qnap (ts-212 or equivalent non qnap) for
>> myth recordings?
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>> Any issues for MySQL storage is is that ask for trouble?
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>> I want to separate my storage from my host so that I can replace parts
>> easily (presently it is one host doing everything).
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>> Ta.
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>> Greg
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> Greg,
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> I have a QNAP ts-412 and use it to store all my Movies, Music and Pictures
> on it.  It is mounted over nfs to my master backend and I usually simlink
> the high-level directories into the storage groups for the respective media
> types.
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> I would not recommend using it to store your recordings as it tends to go
> to sleep pretty regularly when nothing is occurring (i.e. streaming a
> movie).  It periodically wakes up.  I think in order to use it for
> recordings, you would almost want something to access it a minute or so
> prior to a recording started so it can wake up the drives.
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> Dan
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Bummer, that is exactly what I had in mind as well.  I was going to go
Zotac ID41 and put everything on the NAS to get rid of a big box machine.
 Also the QNAP can run XBMC on it with HDMI out for viewing recordings
(another free frontend so to speak).

So what we are saying is the storage needs to be in a dedicated backend
machine, not NAS?

-Andrew
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