I've almost finished moving all my media and hard drives from my htpc to my newly built unraid server.  I'm was hoping to get some advise or feedback on whether its a bad idea to use a share from unraid for Win7 Media Centres live tv cache and recording.  I would like to move this drive to my nas also but am concerned if bandwith may be an issue or more so, spinup times etc may effect the reliability of my live tv watching/recording.

I've almost finished moving all my media and hard drives from my htpc to my newly built unraid server.  I'm was hoping to get some advise or feedback on whether its a bad idea to use a share from unraid for Win7 Media Centres live tv cache and recording.  I would like to move this drive to my nas also but am concerned if bandwith may be an issue or more so, spinup times etc may effect the reliability of my live tv watching/recording.

 

I personally would not do it.  I have a script that moves my local "Recorded TV" folder to my unRAID server every afternoon.  With Windows 7, you can add multiple "Recorded TV Watch Folders", so all your recordings will show up when you enter Media Center.

thanks for the feedback. this sounds like a good way for me to proceed.  I have a 60G SSD for win7 so i could probably partition 30-40gb for live tv then move this to unraid each day.  Could you give me detailed instructions on how to set up a script to move the files daily?

 

also.. what if a recording was taking place at the time the script runs, would it try move it too?

That doesn't seem like enough space.  You need 7-10GB per hour of recorded TV.

 

If the file is being recorded, the move will fail. Windows sees the file as "in-use", so it can't be moved.