[mythtv-users] eSATA drive as recording drive

[Brent Haag]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:39:01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >After upgrading one of my desktop drives from a 500GB to a 2TB, I now have
> >the 500GB just sitting around. Thought I'd add it to my mythbox as
> >additional storage. I've run out of SATA ports on my mobo, but I have an
> >external SATA dock and an eSATA connector card.
> >
> >Since the eSATA is as fast as the onboard SATA, any reason not to use it
> as
> >a recording drive or should it be long-term storage/playback only?
>
> It is fine to use an eSATA or USB 3 external drive for recording, as
> long as you set up the storagegroup to point to a directory on the
> mount point, not the mount point itself.  So if you have the drive
> mounted as /mnt/esata, then you should use /mnt/esata/recordings as
> the storagegroup directory.  That way, the backend can detect if the
> drive is there or not and will not try to record to it if it is not
> mounted.  I do this all the time on my laptop.
>

I used to use a ZBOX with its eSATA connection for all recordings and it
worked flawlessly for a few years. I agree with Stephen on the mount
point/directory.

-- 
Brent Haag
E: brenthaag at gmail.com
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