Record TV directly to NAS?

cncb · 2012-05-07, 02:32 PM

I am thinking about getting a NAS enclosure (gigabit-connected) and was wondering if anyone has tried recording directly to a NAS? This will be potentially 4 ATSC (MPEG2) streams simultaneously which are delivered over the network anyways via 2 HDHomerun devices so I think this should work but I was wondering if anyone has actually tried this. Thanks.

txinga · 2012-05-12, 02:37 PM

I'd love to hear if others are doing this also. I'm thinking of trying the same thing.
Txinga

martint123 · 2012-05-12, 03:10 PM

Have you a spare PC to setup a shared drive to test it?
The network could get a bit congested if the PVR PC is pulling data from a pair of networked tuners and simultaneously sending it to a NAS on the same network???
Start watching stuff over the network at the same time could make things worse.

mvallevand · 2012-05-12, 05:54 PM

I think it will depend more on the NAS then the network. There is a huge variation in the speeds and costs http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-c...ecopy-read and the Pro gear at the top can cost as much as a PC.

Martin

skl111 · 2012-05-17, 08:08 AM

Or you can build your own, OpenFiler, FreeNas8 Nas4Free.

skippy_nz · 2012-05-18, 07:07 AM

I have a Netgear ReadyNAS and if I was starting out again I would spend my money in a decent pc with big enough case to take several hdd's and do it myself as others have suggested. The NAS I have is rated as 10/100/1000 but the performance just isn't there and from talking with others this seems to be the case with most other NAS hardware out there unless you have professional gear with managed switches etc. The transfer speeds are OK with single files to and from my HTPC but not sure what it would be like to record 4 streams to it.

johnsonx42 · 2012-05-18, 07:54 AM

which readynas is it though? there's a pretty big difference between the low-end Duo and the better Ultra and Ultra Plus models. Even with the Duo, the original and the V2 are vastly different.

skippy_nz · 2012-05-18, 09:06 AM

ive got the ReadyNAS NV+ 4 disk model

greg in kansas · 2012-05-18, 10:43 PM

Unraid here

martint123 · 2012-05-19, 02:38 PM

I went for a couple of the HP microservers which have a huge cashback in the UK.
I started of just using one as a NAS, but it has expanded to being a standby NPVR server with DVB-T2 and DVB-S2 USB tuners. Also runs squeezebox server, camera server with motion detection, solar panel monitoring and uploading to pvoutput.org
Second box is for ESXI experiments and as a backup.
For a cheap, little box they are a bargain if you can get the cashback.

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