DISK WARRIOR to defrag main internal hard drive- FCP

[David Roth weiss]

Peter,

Disk Warrior doesn’t actually defrag hard drives, it repairs and rebuilds directories using data revovered from the original directory. That is very much different from defragging. That is not to say it may not be beneficial to your present problems. It may well help. I use it regularly on all of my drives, including my 4-bay 2Tb Raid.

As far as Disk Warrior causing issues with Raid-0 created using Apple Disk Utility, no ther earen’t any so long as you are not using the old version 3.3 under Leopard. Leopard requires Disk Warrior version 4.

Hope this helps…

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Rafael Amador]

Hi Peter,
you don’t need to de-fragment with MacOX. As long as there is free memory enough, the system know how to manage.
As David says, DW will rebuild your directories. That’s really important in a Unix based.
I use it every two weeks or so. As soon as I run it my HDs speed up at least a 25%..
rafael

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Peter Von puttkamer]

Thanks David. That’s great advice. Do you actually have any other software you use to De-frag?

Peter

[Peter Von puttkamer]

Ok great, this answers my last question- that sounds like a great way to go!

Thanks Rafael.

Peter

[Peter Von puttkamer]

PS one other question. Doing a 1080 23.98p timeline right now; incoporating 72059.94p footage- most slo-mo; should I be up-converting 720 to 1080p either in the machine, or through the KONA card before I import. Kona’s not really letting me do it, right now; but I thought it should make for a cleaner up-convert, than having FCP’s software do it.

thanks, much appreciated Rafael.

Peter

[Zane Barker]

[Rafael Amador] “you don’t need to de-fragment with MacOX. As long as there is free memory enough, the system know how to manage. “

That is true on the system drive but I do not believe that it applies to any other drive connected to the machine

How full is the drive it is quite possible that that may be the cause of the issues.

If you still wish to defray look into Drive Genius.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Rafael Amador]

Yeap. I agree with you Zane. But much easier, faster, and with less risk is just to back-up and erase. A full cleaning of the disk every three months or so.
I bought IDefrag few years ago.
The first time I tried with my G5’s second HD.
When I sow how long that would take, I tried to cancel the process.
Yes, there was a button “Stop” “Cancel” “Pause” or so.
And I clicked it.
Well, the day after I had to go and buy a new HD.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Peter Von puttkamer]

Are too many old projets, cluttering up the drives; best to clear off drives each time?

[Randolph Harrison]

Hi David,
Just wondering about your advice to Peter…

I have 2 5xBurley enclosures with 10 Seagates, all working as Raid 0. I am within days of completing my project and I’ve been apprehensive about using DW on my raid 0 array. Is it suggested that I do so? If so, do you have DW select just the raid icon and “not” individual drives? I’m pretty sure I know the answer, just a bit timid to try it. Sorry for the basic question.

Randy

[David Roth weiss]

[Randolph Harrison] “do you have DW select just the raid icon and “not” individual drives?”

Yes, just select the raid and fire away. And, make usre if you have Leopard installed that you have DW 4.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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