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80% rule
It has been my understanding that a hard drive should not be kept more than 80% full – that it will slow down and be more open to corruption.
Does this apply to a Pegasus Raid (or any raid for that matter)? I have a 4-drive 8TB enclosures and I’m working on a series of short films and noticed that I have passed the 6.4 TB mark.
I could lighten the load by transferring one of the short films onto another drive.
I have a back up of this raid as well and have started ingesting on a second pair of these raids. But I recently added some footage to a couple of these films and noticed I exceeded my usual full target.
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Never a bad idea to avoid full drives. That said, 80% is fairly conservative on that large a drive.
Noah
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[Noah Kadner] “Never a bad idea to avoid full drives. That said, 80% is fairly conservative on that large a drive.”
Even on a larger volume keeping 15%-20% open allows for faster Renders and transfer of data since that space allows sufficient room for caching of the temporary data queue that is required when compressing or rendering content.
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Thanks. I went on the side of conservative and copied one of the short films to the new pair or raids. Because I’m putting it on a different drive all the media needed to be relinked. I remember being able to just tell FC to relink media and could easily locate all the media files. But now it seems I had to relink one at a time? Is there a quick wholesale way of doing this?
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Just point it to the drive or folder and it’ll find it all.
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Always did it that way but it kept relinking one clip at a time and I could not figure how to get it to do them all at once.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I’ve noticed that this will happen if you’ve got a file selected in the relink dialog list. A quick ‘cmd+A’ will select everything in the list and -should- batch the lot.
Doug Metz
Anode
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Thanks. I’m sure it was end user error. next time I need to relink I’ll keep that in mind.
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