1st Extreme Test tonight, 4 HD's at once

[mikesm]

This really shouldn't be that big a deal to handle, even with showanalyzer or comskip. My NAS can handle a fair amount of write buffering, which is the secret to handling large numbers of concurrent writes. The buffering doesn't actually improve the write performance of the disks, but does smooth out the amount of seeking going as it allows fewer number of large writes instead of a much larger number of small writes. If this is architected right, you really shouldn't run into too many problems.

And the network issues, even if this is being handled with 2 hdhomeruns should not be a problem with gigabit ethernet and decent controllers.

Your system should have to break a sweat on this sort of activity.

[IVB]

Originally Posted by ace007

UGH.. my HDHR started screwing up during all of my recordings last nice and Sage ended up recording nothing. Restarting the HDHR gets it working again. I have a case opened up with Silicondust. Anybody else having issues lately where Sage will say its recording from the HDHR but in the end it deletes the recording or you end up with a blank recording.

Yep, it deleted "24". Which isn't re-run. Thank god they have it available online, although the wife was bugged about watching it on a PC (we have only extenders).

[ace007]

Originally Posted by IVB

Yep, it deleted "24". Which isn't re-run. Thank god they have it available online, although the wife was bugged about watching it on a PC (we have only extenders).

I have my Sage TV hooked up to a projector so at least with that I can play the streams from the websites up on that big screen although sometimes we'll just lay in bed with the laptop if we are lazy. Luckily this does not happen very often.

[popechild]

I have 3 HD tuners (2 OTA and 1 HD-PVR) and record 3 HD streams at once to a local SATA hard drive on almost a nightly basis. Probably 75% of the time I'm also watching an HD stream at the same time, either one of the three recording or something previously recorded, and on a somewhat less routine basis I'm watching 2 HD streams at once (1 on server and 1 on extender) during this process). I used to have an older 3500+ single core cpu, and never noticed it choke until I was trying to watch multiple streams at once. Recording was never an issue. I upgraded to a dual core faster processor and now I never have a problem even when recording 3 and watching 2 at the same time. I don't use comskip, so I have no idea how that would affect things.

[blade]

Originally Posted by mikesm

This really shouldn't be that big a deal to handle, even with showanalyzer or comskip.

It's not a big deal. I just installed a 1TB WD Green Drive so all of my recordings are going to the new empty drive. I am recording 2 HD and 2 SD shows, processing all 4 as they record, and watch HD on a client. Sometimes I have 2 clients watching HD. This is a typical night. Usually from 7-10pm. I've never experienced any problems. I've done the same with older slower drives. I don't see how adding another HD stream or two would really cause me any problems.

[TorontoSage]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

My advice: buy another hard drive. Personally, I aim to have one less drive than tuner otherwise things start getting ugly in terms of UI responsiveness.

Why one less drive than tuner? I would think the more drives the better, no? And certainly more drives than tuners.

Can you elaborate?

[matterw]

Originally Posted by Batman7349

Well everything went off without a hitch. I was carefull to change channels right at the time so I would not have to "Catch Up" with the live show. Watched 24 at 5:00 this morning before work and all is well.

Out of curiosity, what OS are you running and what is the configuration of your recording drives (e.g., RAID, individual Sage recording directories, etc..)?

Thanks,
Matt