[mythtv-users] Combined FE/BE using USB for all I/O?

Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Sat Aug 16 11:38:07 UTC 2014


On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 07:52:43 PM Stephen Worthington wrote:
> I would be wary of doing more than three recordings at a time on one
> hard disk.  The track stepping speeds have not really kept up with the
> other speed and capacity increases and it can take quite a while for
> the heads to move long distances.  As the drive fills up, the heads
> can have to move very long distances, and the worst case is when the
> directory or allocation information needs to be updated as the file
> grows - then the heads have to move to yet another location as well as
> just the files being written to.  All it takes is one moment when the
> disk is too busy and you will lose a block of data and seconds of one
> or more recording.  I have had this happen before I added more drives,
> and it ruins the watchability of a recording.  And it usually
> continues for some time so several minutes of recording are
> unwatchable.


Thanks Stephen, thats good to know.
-- 
Lindsay
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