Ok I have new in March 3018 NUC. It is a real quad core Celeron / 8
GB of crucial DDR4 and a new HGST Travelstar 5K1000 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s. 2.5. This is my TV media box for watching and
recording video. OS is Win 10 PRO and the only other thing I have
installed is VLC and HD Homerun which I have a subscription to.
Previously I was using Windows 8 Pro with Media center with my cable
HD homerun Prime. Unlike Media center the new app allows me to sink
all my devices to the recording device. This includes my android
phones and tablet, laptops and a old windows 10 phone lumia
1520...all running the free HDhomerun app. It worked great for three
months and then I started getting stuttering, and freeze ups. The
recordings became un watchable with so many skipped frames. I assumed
it was the app because my old Media Center PC was still displaying
and recording perfectly. I contacted support and they replied
The log data from your DVR indicates extremely long delays in writing
to the hard drive. On the afternoon of 9/21, it was taking about 50ms
on average for data to get written to the drive, which is a perfectly
normal time for a regular hard drive. Get to the evening of 9/21,
suddenly it's 1500-2000ms, which is not good. This would typically
indicate that either you've got some sort of
security/antivirus/antimalware software on the computer that got an
update and is now grinding things to a halt, or your drive is dying.
If you've got any such software on there (excluding the stock
programs from Microsoft, those won't cause this problem), then
completely uninstall them and check to see if your issue clears up.
If not, then it's probably time to back up your data and look at
replacing the drive.
- Silicondust Suppot
this didn't make sense to me because while it is not a performance
drive it is a brand new quality 2.5 inch drive that in every other
way was working fine and passed all Active Boot drive diagnostics. So
I replied and made my case suggesting that they must of been seeing
times of auto defrags which are done when no other activity is occurring.
And they replied
The HDHomeRun app on Windows 10, Mac, Xbox One, Android, and iOS
buffers live TV through the DVR to allow you to pause and rewind live
TV. Therefore if the DVR is having issues, you'll see that on all the
clients. If you shut down the DVR, all your clients should magically
start working.
The problems reported in the logs have been consistently occurring
since the time referenced. It's not a defrag issue.
- Silicondust Support
So they are saying that when the apps on the other devices are being
used to watch TV all the buffering is occurring on the recording PC =
the Travelstar. It could be buffering for three devices in as much as
there are three tuners in the HD Homerun Prime. Because it worked
just fine for three months I can only assume that the constant
buffering slowed down the Travelstar in some way and it can no longer
do the job. Yeah I know it doesn't make a lot of sense and if you
have a better explanation I would be interested in hearing it.
What I am thinking of doing is replacing the hard drive with a
SSD. I was thinking of getting basic reliable Crucial daily driver
SSD but then I found a ADATA Ultimate SU650 2.5" 960GB SATA III 3D
NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ASU650SS-960GT-C at a very good
price so I am thinking of putting that it. The only experience I have
with Adata is with flash drives and MicroSD cards. These days SSD
drives are ho hum, the technology is all pretty good and besides I am
not looking for a high performance drive so it seems like whatever
SSD is going to blow the Travelstar away. Anybody think I will have
problems with ADATA? Thanks
