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<blockquote data-quote="RobNorthcott" data-source="post: 524994" data-attributes="member: 57999">I think I've finally got to the bottom of this.&nbsp; Looks like it was a hardware problem, which would explain why it was getting worse when I thought nothing on the system had changed.&nbsp; The hard drive was dying - became obvious when it got worse.&nbsp; That explains why live TV was fine (uses a USB flash stick for timeshifting) and recordings failed.&nbsp; It started to get to the point where writing anything to the drive would hang the machine.&nbsp; ChkDsk wouldn't complete, nor would the official WD drive checker.I reinstalled everything on another drive yesterday and it all seems much happier - even made a recording last night.Now I've just got to hope it was the drive that was the problem, not the controller.&nbsp; But so far it looks good <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Rob</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobNorthcott, post: 524994, member: 57999"] I think I've finally got to the bottom of this. Looks like it was a hardware problem, which would explain why it was getting worse when I thought nothing on the system had changed. The hard drive was dying - became obvious when it got worse. That explains why live TV was fine (uses a USB flash stick for timeshifting) and recordings failed. It started to get to the point where writing anything to the drive would hang the machine. ChkDsk wouldn't complete, nor would the official WD drive checker. I reinstalled everything on another drive yesterday and it all seems much happier - even made a recording last night. Now I've just got to hope it was the drive that was the problem, not the controller. But so far it looks good :) Rob [/QUOTE]

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