Well, it did some time ago. I had a Seagate 1.5TB drive attached to a HR24. I should have known. Playback was painful. A lot of artifacting and playback stopping. Then, when live TV started to become a problem, I knew I was really in trouble.
Fast forward about a week and come home to find the HR24 completely frozen. Had to power cycle it. When I did, it came back up on its internal hard drive. OOOH NO! Lost about 100 hours of programming I hadn't watched.
How to deal with this. If there were only a way I could incorporate a RAID solution on to the DVR. Did a little reasearch and found the Guardian MAXimus RAID 1 storage cabinet from a company called NewerTech. Picked one up and a pair of 2TB hard drives (that's another long story) to see if I could make it work.
The cabinet has several ports on it. But I was only interested in the eSATA port. Plug everything in, hook it up to the DVR and boot it away. The DVR wouldn't see it with virgin hard drives. So, I take each drive out, format it on a Windows machine and reassemble it all together. Boot the DVR again. Bingo! It sees the cabinet and 2TB of drive space.
Been running on this setup for about 6 weeks now and so far, everything works like a champ. Now to wait for a drive failure. Supposedly, all that I have to do is swap out the dead drive and the cabinet will rebuild the array on its own. In theory, I shouldn't lose any programming or settings. I'll have to report on that when it happens.
I don't work for NewerTech. I would think any RAID cabinet such as this would work as well. Just wanted to get my experience out in the wild.
Fast forward about a week and come home to find the HR24 completely frozen. Had to power cycle it. When I did, it came back up on its internal hard drive. OOOH NO! Lost about 100 hours of programming I hadn't watched.
How to deal with this. If there were only a way I could incorporate a RAID solution on to the DVR. Did a little reasearch and found the Guardian MAXimus RAID 1 storage cabinet from a company called NewerTech. Picked one up and a pair of 2TB hard drives (that's another long story) to see if I could make it work.
The cabinet has several ports on it. But I was only interested in the eSATA port. Plug everything in, hook it up to the DVR and boot it away. The DVR wouldn't see it with virgin hard drives. So, I take each drive out, format it on a Windows machine and reassemble it all together. Boot the DVR again. Bingo! It sees the cabinet and 2TB of drive space.
Been running on this setup for about 6 weeks now and so far, everything works like a champ. Now to wait for a drive failure. Supposedly, all that I have to do is swap out the dead drive and the cabinet will rebuild the array on its own. In theory, I shouldn't lose any programming or settings. I'll have to report on that when it happens.
I don't work for NewerTech. I would think any RAID cabinet such as this would work as well. Just wanted to get my experience out in the wild.