08-19-2015, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2015, 05:53 PM by chewmanfoo.)
I have an Intel NUC OpenElec 5.08 system with three external USB.3 drives. I download content on a windows box and transfer the content across my 100Mb network to the USB drives, making use of OpenElec's samba capabilities. My NUC is sitting in my living room on a shelf above my TV. I live in a Bermuda's triangle for electricity service, and we often lose power for over a day at a time, perhaps 5 times a year.
This situation has happened to me several times in my ongoing saga of operating OpenElec systems:
I often transfer up to 10 files at a time from my Windows box to my OpenElec box over the network. It seems to work, so I load up as much as Windows can stand and let it run.
Today I go to setup a transfer and I start seeing errors. Windows says there was an error transferring, do I want to try again? Sometimes it says I don't have permission to write to this volume. I go to the OpenElec box, ssh in and see that the volume is mounted read-only. I monkey with it for a while, find I can't run fsck, move it to a Windows PC and try to scan and fix. Nothing works, and I think this drive is pretty much dead. It seems to be readable, but not writeable. This drive (a buffalo 3TB desk model) has lasted about 8 months.
I'm just trying to figure out how to do OpenElec without this happening to me all the time. Obviously, an Intel NUC with USB drives is a woky solution. but I'm frankly surprised at how much difficulty I've had using this system. Drives fail all the time! I just replaced an older Intel NUC (Lasted about 2 years) because it overheated. This is a money pit!
Has anyone used a QNAP device (say, a TVS-671)? Does it allow me to upgrade KODI any time I want, or do I have to wait for a QNAP build of KODI to run it?
Help! Any advice would be appreciated.
This situation has happened to me several times in my ongoing saga of operating OpenElec systems:
I often transfer up to 10 files at a time from my Windows box to my OpenElec box over the network. It seems to work, so I load up as much as Windows can stand and let it run.
Today I go to setup a transfer and I start seeing errors. Windows says there was an error transferring, do I want to try again? Sometimes it says I don't have permission to write to this volume. I go to the OpenElec box, ssh in and see that the volume is mounted read-only. I monkey with it for a while, find I can't run fsck, move it to a Windows PC and try to scan and fix. Nothing works, and I think this drive is pretty much dead. It seems to be readable, but not writeable. This drive (a buffalo 3TB desk model) has lasted about 8 months.
I'm just trying to figure out how to do OpenElec without this happening to me all the time. Obviously, an Intel NUC with USB drives is a woky solution. but I'm frankly surprised at how much difficulty I've had using this system. Drives fail all the time! I just replaced an older Intel NUC (Lasted about 2 years) because it overheated. This is a money pit!
Has anyone used a QNAP device (say, a TVS-671)? Does it allow me to upgrade KODI any time I want, or do I have to wait for a QNAP build of KODI to run it?
Help! Any advice would be appreciated.
