New client causes other client on same network to freeze (1 Viewer)

[ben1210]

Your analysis seems correct

This happened again tonight, my missus automatically rewound 30 seconds and said whenever it freezes she rewinds and all ok.

So, the answer, whats best power management change or recordings and timeshift on one HDD?

Question, if I have all recordings and timeshift on one HDD couldnt that cause issues as its possible that 3 Live TVs timeshifting could be on with recordings all at once?

 

[mm1352000]

So, the answer, whats best power management change or recordings and timeshift on one HDD?
Question, if I have all recordings and timeshift on one HDD couldnt that cause issues as its possible that 3 Live TVs timeshifting could be on with recordings all at once?

These are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself.
Obviously having HDDs not spin down will use more power over time.
It may or may not be possible to have 3 timeshift sessions plus recordings run on the one HDD. You'll only know by trying. I can't tell you as I don't know, and the answer will depend on hardware, drivers, stream bitrates etc. Too many variables.

 

[ben1210]

These are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself.
Obviously having HDDs not spin down will use more power over time.
It may or may not be possible to have 3 timeshift sessions plus recordings run on the one HDD. You'll only know by trying. I can't tell you as I don't know, and the answer will depend on hardware, drivers, stream bitrates etc. Too many variables.

Sorry for bump but I'm still suffering. I dont want to change the HDDs powering down as there is 6 of them (I cant find a setting for individual HDD just all), I also dont want to put the recordings on timeshift HDD as I've got 4 clients now and concerned about making the problem worse.

So what are you thoughts on replacing the timeshift HDD with a SSD?

 

[mm1352000]

I dont want to change the HDDs powering down as there is 6 of them (I cant find a setting for individual HDD just all)

I can understand this.

I also dont want to put the recordings on timeshift HDD as I've got 4 clients now and concerned about making the problem worse.

Thing is: a 15 Mb/s HD stream is only 1.875 MB/s. In most cases that's "chump change" even for an HDD.
IMHO it is seriously worth putting aside your concern and actually trying this scenario with some dummy recordings.

So what are you thoughts on replacing the timeshift HDD with a SSD?

Everybody has different opinions about this.
The lifetime of SSDs is usually measured as a function of the number of write operations the drive can handle. Since timeshifting involves continuous writing, it is obviously going to shorten the life of the drive compared to more "normal" usage patterns. Video and audio aren't 100% uncompressable, but they'd be pretty close to it... which means even the "flash" drives that minimise writing by compression aren't going to be able to work their magic well.
The question is: how long will the drive really last... and I can't give you a sure fire answer.
You can do the maths if you can get the drive rating, and make up some scenarios with average stream bit rates and client counts. The numbers will probably work out to be several years... but I can't and don't guarantee that.

Sorry but like I said before, these are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself.

 

[ben1210]

I dont want to change the HDDs powering down as there is 6 of them (I cant find a setting for individual HDD just all)

I can understand this.

I also dont want to put the recordings on timeshift HDD as I've got 4 clients now and concerned about making the problem worse.

Thing is: a 15 Mb/s HD stream is only 1.875 MB/s. In most cases that's "chump change" even for an HDD.
IMHO it is seriously worth putting aside your concern and actually trying this scenario with some dummy recordings.

So what are you thoughts on replacing the timeshift HDD with a SSD?

Everybody has different opinions about this.
The lifetime of SSDs is usually measured as a function of the number of write operations the drive can handle. Since timeshifting involves continuous writing, it is obviously going to shorten the life of the drive compared to more "normal" usage patterns. Video and audio aren't 100% uncompressable, but they'd be pretty close to it... which means even the "flash" drives that minimise writing by compression aren't going to be able to work their magic well.
The question is: how long will the drive really last... and I can't give you a sure fire answer.
You can do the maths if you can get the drive rating, and make up some scenarios with average stream bit rates and client counts. The numbers will probably work out to be several years... but I can't and don't guarantee that.

Sorry but like I said before, these are things that you have to figure out and decide for yourself.

Awesome advice as per usual, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge, thanks. Will try moving timeshift folder over to same HDD as TV recordings folder. Lets see....