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Formating FCP Drives? Please Advise
I have a few drives that I’m setting up and will be formating under Mac 10.4.2 Disc Utilites … They’re main purpose in life is FCP.
What flavor should I format them in, Journaled, Extended, etc.
What’s the difference and or advantage of a particular flavor?
I’m striping together 8 Hitachi Serial ATA 500GB Drives.
Also formating two LaCie 1.6TB FW 800 Drives and one LaCie 1TB Drives to use as backup… Not stripping these seperate units.
Thanks for your time everyone!
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7 Replies
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They must be formatted Mac OS Extended. Journalling can be on or off, it doesn’t matter. That is pretty much the only format you can use if you intend to capture media to those drives using FCP.
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Exactly what is journalling?
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To Quote Apple:
“enhances server availability and fault resilience by protecting file system integrity in the event of an unplanned shutdown or power failure, maximizing server and storage uptime by dramatically expediting repairs to the volumes when the system restarts”
It is a file that takes note of the file names and types on your hard drive. It doesn’t effect drive performance. Early thoughts were that it did, but it was discovered that it doesn’t.
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Very informative… Thanks!
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I thought it was generally excepted that journaling was only for OS system drives and not for media drives. Has this thinking changed and why.
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Ditto
I’ve always read that journaling was NEVER supposed to be used for media drives.
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Journaling appears to be serious overhead on non-system drives that can possibly interfere with video capture and playback. However, DV isn’t all that intensive and most of the heavy lifting is done by the CPU so a bit of drive overhead shouldn’t matter..
I’ve formated DV-only Firewire media drives with and without journaling enabled. I see no performance difference but I also see no value in maintaining the journal files.
There might be a difference for other formats and codecs or for internal SATA drives. Dunno.google “osx journaling” for many hours of inconclusively boring reading. Comes down to personal choice, I think.
bogiesan
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