[mythtv-users] Mythbackend recording glitches

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:16 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:58:57 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 1:09 AM Stephen Worthington <
> >stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> >Barring unforeseen problems, I am done.
> >
> >I have MythTV back again and no glitches, audio on Digital and Audio at
> the
> >same time, basically everything is good.
> >This is Mythbuntu 8 on a new 1T WD Blue drive. I read all the discussions
> >about which drive to get and my old drive was a blue drive and it failed.
> >But it lasted 10 years and it really seems like all these drives are
> >probably the same but the red is just run slower which gives it longer
> >life.  If it fails, I will get a Red and clone the old drive like I use
> did
> >using Clonezilla.
> >
> >A word about the cloning.  I went from a 500G drive to a 1T drive.  I used
> >a iso image on a DVD and booted off that with the two drives attached to
> >the computer.  I checked Expert in the menu and checked option K1 which
> >expended the partitions so that I am left with 916G on the root partition.
> >I took about 2 hours. I have the old 500G installed as a backup so I won't
> >lose my system in the event of a disk failure.  We don't save recordings
> >past watching them so in the even to a disk failure, we would just end up
> >watching some shows streaming.
> >
> >It was both interesting and frustrating trying to "upgrade" my old
> >hardware. Perhaps if I bought some more memory it would have worked but it
> >was just one more thing too many once I figured out how to stabilize the
> >Mythbuntu 8 system.
> >
> >I installed the Mythbuntu 16 disk in the computer but of course it isn't
> >usable without the 750 video card.  I had hoped to have it dual boot so my
> >wife could watch the shows she taped in the last couple of weeks.  Maybe
> >Mythbuntu 8 can run the 750 card and now that I have an image of the
> system
> >perhaps it is worth trying.  Any opinions out there?  If it can, maybe I
> >will buy the additional memory and see if the new system can be made to
> >work if for no other reason than to share the experience.
> >
> >Thanks to all who helped me through this journey.  I truly appreciate it.
> >
> >I will leave with some words of wisdom:  "Never upgrade unless your system
> >is broken"
> >
> >Allen
>
> If there are only a few recordings that your wife wants to watch, you
> can just add the directory they are in as a directory in the setting
> that tells where the video files are and they will be able to be
> played from there.  Or you can move them to a directory already in
> that list.  The only problem with that is that they will have the not
> very user friendly names for the files, but you can work out what they
> are if there are not too many.  The file names have the chanid and the
> timestamp of when they were recorded, and I have found that is enough
> clues to be able to use them.
>
> Back when your original blue drive was made, blue drives were over
> engineered and tended to last well.  Modern WD Blue drives are not the
> same.  They are engineered only well enough to do what they are
> advertised to do.  So they are not suitable for 24/7 operation but are
> intended for "desktop" operation where the PC is only on for an hour
> or two a day and is kept switched off for the rest of the time.  So do
> not expect a modern Blue drive to have a long lifetime.  The
> equivalent Seagate drives are the same.  To get 24/7 operation, you
> need to buy a drive rated for it, a "NAS" drive or better.
>
> Please make sure you have SMART installed to monitor your drives (from
> the "smartmontools" package), and have it set up to email you if it
> detects drive problems.  That will normally give you the opportunity
> to see the first problems with a drive and copy the data off to a new
> drive before it fails.
>

Maybe I will just get another drive and use this one for something else.

Like this one?  WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64
MB Cache, 3.5" - WD10EFRX <https://goo.gl/pcvztB>

Allen

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