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G raid error
I am using a 2tb G Raid external drive. I am trying to transfer large MXF (15gb) files to it and it is saying the files are too large. There is more than enough room on the drive. Does ANYONE out there have an idea why this is happening and more importantly, how to fix it?
Thank you.
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13 Replies
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You have shortchanged us in terms of the info we need to help you. In order to help us to help you we need to know the following:
1) Is your system Mac or PC?
2) Did you format the drive, or did it come formatted?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Thank you for responding.
The drive came to me formatted and I am on a Macbook Pro 10.8.3 OSX, And am on Avid 5.5.
Paul Argyropoulos
slayskool@aol.com -
Just as I suspected… The drive is most likely formatted FAT32 (for Winfows), and it thus has a 4Gb file size limitation. You need to format it Mac Extended using Apple Disk Utility. Any files on the drive will be erased in the reformatting process, so copy them to another hard drive before you forge ahead.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Thank you for responding. That makes so much sense now. To reformat the drive will be a beast as there is so much media on it now. Guess I will have to figure out how to deal with it. Thanks again!
Paul Argyropoulos
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Although, why would a G-RAID be FAT32? G-Drive, maybe, but a G-RAID? Unless someone re-formatted it.
Best way to check format is to right click or CTRL-Click and select Get Info. Look at what the info says as Format.
If you need cross-platform. Put the drive on a PC and format exFAT. Will do what you need then.
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A 2TB G-Raid probably means that there are two 1TB hd’s in one enclosure. So you can do a Raid1 mirror.
It won’t be a real raid system like we are used to.
cheersRainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
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Or, a 2-drive RAID 0 as well, both of which can be FAT32, if that’s the issue, which sure sounds like it is.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I’m with you David – Fat32
cheers
Rainer
factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Most likely. But certainly simple to check with ‘Get Info’.
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