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GRAID crash while using Final Cut Pro Studio 2
hi–
a few days ago i had a new 500g GRAID crash and wanted to see if anyone here can offer insights. first off, about three weeks ago, i captured DVCPRO HD with FCP 5, saving to the brand new 500g GRAID external hardrive. FCP was being finnicky, and was only letting me batch capture some of the time, so i ended up capturing most of my footage on the fly, (i never figured out why this was happening.) after capturing, the system i was using got upgraded to the new FCP 6. i began editing with the new FCP, still using the same GRAID, with everything working completely swell for three weeks. Then a few days ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the drive started acting up. I opened it up on the desktop and each item i clicked on in the drive disappeared after i clicked on it. Obviously, i freaked out and stopped clicking on anything. I ejected the drive and restarted, then turned on the drive. All my captured media was missing. I ended up running disc warrior on the computer, without the drive hooked up. The computer came back with a good report, then i tried to remount the external drive and it wouldn’t mount. I ran disc warrior on the drive, and it appeared again with only some files recovered and the names were all screwy. i was advised by Melrose Mac in LA that the media on this drive was most likely corrupted from whatever drive failure took place, and it was safer in the long run to recapture my media. Other external GRAIDS were hooked up at the same time that my drive failed, and none of those were affected (i think that could rule out a large surge or spark.. also the drives were hooked up with a surge protector.) All other FCP projects seem to working fine. luckily i have my project backed up in many places, but will have to recapture my footage. this time around i have a battery backup, and 2 GRAIDS to back up on, (i know, my first mistake was having just the one.)
my questions are A- is there anything i could have done differently to avoid this crash, and that i should implement in the future? and B- why was FCP not letting me batch capture? does that have to do more with my tapes than the program? and C- i’m trying to make the rebuilding and reconnecting of media in my project sequence as painless as possible. since i ended up capturing on the fly, can i still use the batch capture on the sequence to re-capture just those clips? any and all advice is appreciated. feel free to explain away- i’d love to learn more about FCP and keeping my external drives as safe and sound as possible.
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What’s the speeds on your G-RAID?
Is it set up in Journaled mode? If so, that’s not a good thing.
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the speed is 7200 RPM on SATA II drives. it’s the GRAID 2 model.
i don’t believe it’s set up journaled. i did not initialize, but it was working fine out of the box for those three weeks.
any recommendations on best way to backup in the future? my plan was to hook up two GRAIDS to the system (one with FW 800, one with FW 400) and copy over my FCP project and media. i know there’s the backup/save function in FCP, but i’m not too famaliar with it.
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Funny you did not say it was SATA …
see my comments in the Gtech forum
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/176/856101?gary adcock
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