This is not RDD-specific or anything.
It happened to us (HD died from the 24x7 recording activity).
We were using a WinXP system running BUTT to feed Shoutcast.
BUTT had a record option, but it was clunky, so my tech added a $99 utility for
recording (sorry, I don't remember the product). Hourly recordings going to a
data drive (on the XP box) that was then shared on the LAN.
The hourly recording activity ran the data drive so hard (constantly writing
every few seconds) it finally started corrupting.
This caused BSoDs for the XP box, bringing down the primary function of feeding
Shoutcast.
I rebuilt that box and said "no recording anymore; recording shall not take
down the stream feed".
We had a manual Tascam recorder workaround for quite awhile, but I wanted to
figure out a way to do the automated recordings again, and it was an
opportunity to figure out how to do it with Linux.
I thought about SSDs, but I was reluctant to put one in for constant thrashing,
and remembered my old DOS days when RAMdisks were used to compensate for slow
HDs.
I thought PERFECT! RAM IS designed to be thrashed for the life of the system,
let's do it that way!
The rest fell into place one the plan was set :)
Cheers,
Rick
KMUZ Engineering
________________________________
From: Rob Landry <[email protected]>
To: Rick <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kevin, Natalia, Stacey and Rochelle" <[email protected]>;
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 'User
discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System'
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Looking for Looping Software to record Broadcast
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Rick wrote:
> - Everything recorded to ramdisk, then moved to physical HD once hourly
> recording is complete (prevents killing your HD by constantly writing to it
> during recording).
I've never encountered that problem. Where did you learn about it?
Rob
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