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Old 06-12-2008, 07:39 PM
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Recoding to Netgear (infrant) ReadyNas

Anyone recording straight to a Netgear (infrant) ReadyNAS? I have a X6/600 and wondering anyone has any experiences in HDHR and analog cards.

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Old 06-13-2008, 05:08 AM
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Had an X6, and it was really marginal, especially with multiple recordings simultaneously.

The real easy solution is to record to a local disk drive in Sage server with 64k clusters, and run a batch file daily (Windows Scheduled Task) that moves all files to your NAS.

You set up both the local disk and NAS directories as recording locations, but set the NAS as "use only= really small number" in Sage Setup. Sage will always record to the local drive, but has no problem when files are moved around to other recording directories.....it is seemless. No need to shut Sage down and restart or anything like that. If you are making a recording while the batch file runs, that file will not get moved due to access error....and it will just get moved the next day.

This works so well, that when I dumped my X6, and put a 5TB (3ware Raid card) in my Sage Server, I still record to a separate drive, and batch move the daily recordings to the RAID. Advantage is no fragmentation of these files on the RAID storage medium.

Also, I began to get stuttering when I tried to record over 5 simultaneous HD recordings directly to the RAID in my Sage Server. There is no problem recording 7 simul directly to a separate IDE drive in my server.

I have four HVR-950 OTA USB, and three Firewire Cable set top boxes on my SageServer.
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Old 06-13-2008, 11:13 AM
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Thanks dcardellini.

That makes sense, I'll give that a try. I'm in the process of upgrading my X6 from 1.2 TB to 4TB.
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Old 08-29-2008, 11:12 AM
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hey dcardellini, have you tried this solution with HD-PVR H.264 files by chance? I'm intrigued by your solution as I'm doing a major rethink of recording to a set of 3 drives and then backing up (via GoodSync at night) to a NAS box. I've run out of backup space on the NAS and am wondering if I should just get a RAID 5 capable NAS like a D-Link DNS-343. I'm using the Airlink ANAS350 right now, and it's a cute little box, but unfortunately not gigabit-ready nor made for RAID.

If I just recorded to one drive as you do and them move the files to a RAID 5 NAS overnight, that could be way cool. But I'm not sure if the NAS could support reading simultaneously from several HD-PVR files at once.
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