[mythtv-users] Anyone using Seagate 8T (ST8000AS0002) Hard Drives?

[John McEntee]

The other option is to get a NAS 8TB drive.  ST8000VN0002

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:45 AM, David Madsen <david.madsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Yes, I have two of these, one for archiving videos, and one for
>> archiving recordings.  It would not be a good idea to use one for
>> recording directly to, as the write speed goes down to virtually zero
>> at times when it is doing its SMR re-writing.  My recording drive is
>> simply put in a new storagegroup I created called "Archives".  Any
>> recordings moved to this drive are able to be played and deleted
>> without problems, but it will never be recorded to unless I change a
>> recording rule to specifically refer to that drive.
>>
>
> I've been using one of these SMR drives for several months.  I initially
> had some concerns about recording directly to the drive, but after testing
> it a bit, it hasn't been an issue in practice.  The drive itself has a good
> amount of "write cache" space (around 20GB or so) which it can write to
> without the problematic read-modify-write cycles.  As long as your
> recordings don't exceed that cache space, and you have downtime (overnight,
> between recordings, etc.) to allow the drive to migrate the data out of the
> cache, it isn't really an issue.
>
> The safest way to handle them is probably what has already been mentioned,
> which is to move/archive things to the drive manually.  However, I haven't
> run into any trouble as of yet with a moderate amount of recording
> happening directly to the drive.  I'm running on a vanilla 3.16.1 kernel
> and haven't had any operating system issues with the drive, so as long as
> you avoid the older kernels you should be fine.
>
> --Dave
>
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