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Freezing up during captures……
I can capture DV (and HD) footage fine using the system drive that my OS is on without a single problem or a single dopped frame but when i try capture to any of my other drives i freeze up, times vary from 5 minutes to 60 minutes, no dropped frames just system freezes.
Any help appreiatedsystem details:
Vegas 6c
AMD 4400+
650W Power supply
2GB Memory
Asus A8v Deluxe Motherboard
Raptor 78gb SATA, 10,000rpm system drive
TWO 320gb SATA drives in RAID 0 using onbard Promise controller
TWO IDE 300gb drives in RAID 0 uning onborad VIA controller
ONE IDE 150gb on primary master IDE
TWO DVD writer drives on Secondry IDE -
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With all those drives hooked up I’m not too surprised. Do you really need those RAIDs for anything or are they just complicating things?
Anyway, to test it I’d disconnect the RAIDS and just capture to any single drive.
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I could remove the RAIDS but the idea of me building the PC as i have is to be able to use them, doing 4 cam HDV edits takes up HUGE amounts of space.
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I understand. But to reduce the complexity of the system so you can locate the source of the lockups I don’t think you have much choice.
Anyway, all that storage can be kept online without using RAID, if it comes to that. Just stick em all in cheap external 1394/usb2 cases.
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I don’t agree that removing the RAID setups would improve matters. A RAID generally has about 50 to 70% more throughput than a single hard drive. (Um, these ARE RAID 0, yes?)
Here are a couple of things to check:
1. Turn off Indexing for the video storage drives.
2. Turn off System Restore monitoring for the video drives.
3. Make sure Compression has not been enabled on these drives.
4. For IDE drives, make sure they’re operating in UDMA 4 or 5 mode, and that you are using 80-conductor IDE 100 or 133 data cables.Regards,
Doug Graham -
Hi DOug
Thanks for the info
can you tell me how i carry out 1, 2 and 3 ??
cheers
si -
1. Turn off Indexing for the video storage drives.
Open My Computer, right-click the drive letter, choose Properties, and uncheck Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching.
2. Turn off System Restore monitoring for the video drives.
Right-click My Computer, choose Properties, click on the “System Resotre” tab and adjust from there.
3. Make sure Compression has not been enabled on these drives.
Open My Computer, right-click the drive letter, choose Properties, and uncheck Compress drive to save disk space.
Edward Troxel
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excellent , will give the captures a try this weekend:)
regards
Si
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