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Defraging a drive with video
I vaguely remember someone said to me that you shouldn’t defrag a drive with your video components associated with PP – even though Windows reports that the drive needs to be defraged. Any thoughts or collective wisdom on this subject? (In this specific case, the drive in question is 500g, with 150g of PP components. Windows reports 71% free space.)
Thanks so much.
Bill in Toronto
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Better get some advice from some other guys here at the cow, but If you are having read/write issues because of the fragmented drive, I would do it. I don’t how the ‘issues’ would destroy anything you’ve done. I can’t say I’ve done it with a massive project, but I’ve done it on 30min projects and haven’t noticed any ‘issues’. I’d suggest you just defrag. But let other’s get onto this issue with their experience. It might play with the way it…looks at the render files, that doesn’t make sense to me… I’d defrag.
– Jon 😕 -
I have heard of issues caused by defraging a drive but suspect they are urban legends. I defrag prior to capturing or just after dumping a project.
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I was getting serious dropped-frame issues when my 3TB RAID was getting fragmented. I bought Diskeeper Pro Premier and tried that out. It works fantastic, It runs in the background basically defragmenting as soon as a file is written to a drive, so you don’t ever need to run a defrag (of course you can turn the option off). I assumed it would cause playback problems, but it hasn’t at all. You can run a 30 day free trial to see if it works for you. http://www.diskeeper.com
Jeff Kosmicki
http://www.toyraygun.net
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