There are certain flash drives that people here have found to be reliable as far as write speed - but I decided a couple of years ago to just get a small portable drive that would not tax the meager power supply but still get me pretty good responsiveness without having to even think about write speed. The point being is that the smaller drive gives me nearly the same responsiveness as a flash drive - without dealing with the maddening write speed issues that can come with using a flash drive.
It's never an issue because as mentioned, the drive gets emptied each weekend and transferred to my media server. The size of each 1-hour recording is between 3-4 GB in size - so rough estimate is I have a capacity of 50 hours with that drive. Those are the only 2 purposes for the HW150.Īt the end of the week - I disconnect the hard drive and plug it into my media server to transfer the recordings where I then commercial remove them and make them available to Emby where she watches them from. It has only 2 jobs: Record my wife's Monday-Friday daytime shows and during football season delay live TV by 12 seconds - as 12 seconds is the amount of time it takes to sync up the video from the game I'm watching to the radio call of my home team. My box (which I refer to in posts now as the 'Franken-iView' - a mediasonic hw-150 box with iView firmware) is not my primary means of recording. I'm not 100% sure - but I thought I once tried a 3 TB drive and it never actually completed. Regarding hard drive - I recall putting a 1 TB drive on the box (making sure it was not attempting to draw power from the box) and found a delay when accessing the drive as it 'scans' the whole drive. I wound up taking a competitor's firmware (from iView) and flashing that on the box after getting an iView remote.īut let's table that for a moment - it is certainly not the issue here. Many people aren't affected by the bug - some were. JHBrandt can give a better description of it than I - but my attempt at summarizing it is that something in the stations PSIP caused the box to 'double-scan' the station occasionally when tuning to it - in essence treating it like a 'new' channel which would wipe out all of your scheduled recordings on that channel. My HW-150PVR was hit by the 'double-clutch' bug on the primary station that my wife's programs are recorded on.