[mythtv-users] recording drive bottle neck suggestions..

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Tue Sep  1  4:50 , Yeechang Lee  sent:

>sonofzev at iinet.net.au sonofzev at iinet.net.au> says:
>> On Sunday night I ended up having a bottle neck as it was the first
>> time I ever had 5 recordings going at one (1 HD 4 SD)...
>
>Here's how I answered a similar question a few months back:
>
>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/369400#369400>
>(read the whole thread)
>
>-- 
Thanks to everyone who has responded to this.. I think I know what to do. but to
answer a couple of questions 
1. DVB-T tuners (1x dvico fusion lite.. 1 x dual express.. 3 tuners on 2 cards)
2. DB is on OS drive while recording is elsewhere.... 

BTW .. commflagging was definitely occuring as looking at the schedule there were
numerous shows starting and finishing .....

My strategy will be

Immediately 
1. schedule all jobs to after 1am ... there is very little recording happening
then... (i assume this includes commflagging when a window for jobs is set?)

When I get a chance to migrate cases.. 

2.  add another 1 recording drive .. to start (I have a spare 200GB IDE ) 

3. load test -- see what the limits are.. 

depending on load test I may add another drive for recording or add another drive
to the RAID for general storage... 

thanks again everyone. it's probably a few weeks before I get time to do this...
but will post my results