[mythtv-users] eSATA drive as recording drive

[Mike Perkins]

On 08/11/15 23:18, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> On 9 November 2015 at 05:05, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Brent Haag <brenthaag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tips guys. As it turns out, the eSata card that was sitting
>> in my computer odds'n'ends box was meant to be attached to a SATA port on
>> the mobo and I don't have a free one. So I'll either pick up a PCI card
>> that will add a couple of extra internal SATA ports, or I'll just use the
>> drive as an external USB storage drive, rather than a recording one.
>>
>>
>>
> You can pickup eSATA to SATA (internal connector) from ebay, I'm running a
> couple of drives like it now and using them for mythtv recording storage.
>
Doesn't anybody read these posts properly? The OP clearly states above, "I've run out of SATA ports 
on my mobo". The card he thought he had requires a link to an internal SATA port, so is no use to him.

What he wants is another way of connecting an external drive to his m/b without using m/b SATA. That 
means either a PCI/PCI-e card with eSATA output or possibly some kind of USB 2 or 3 interface.

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Mike Perkins