FCP dropped frames warning

[Brad Mirman]

So, then I should transfer all my Video and FCP folders from my two internal drives to external drives (to hold info since I am in the middle of a project) — then set the internal drives to Raid0 (which will erase everything) and then copy folders from the external drives back onto my internal Raid drives?

[David Roth weiss]

Just do it!

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Brad Mirman]

David,

Okay, I’m doing it. I assume that copying everything to externals drives and back to internal raid is the correct way. Forgive my anxiousness, but I would hate to do it wrong and lose parts of my project.

Thanks for taking the time to walk me through this

Brad

[David Roth weiss]

You’ll be fine Brad, and once you succeed it will give you a tremendous feeling of confidence.

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

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[Brad Mirman]

Okay, what I’m thinking of doing is this: I will have 4 internal drives in my Mac Pro. I will do nothing to the MacHD OSX disk (drive 1). I will raid0 drive 2 and 3 to use as scratch disk and use the 4th disk as a backup.

I will also backup to external firewire 800 drives?

Does that sound about right, or should I raid drives 2,3 and 4 and use the external firewire drives for backups?

Does using 3 drives in the raid0 configuration give me more than just using 2?

Thanks again