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internal hard drive readers/enclosures…?
I’ve been using internal hard drives and popping them into a voyager drive mount. Really like doing this as I can slowly build up my storage and its pretty cheap.
One thing I don’t like is that if you have multiple drive mounts daisy chained, and you eject a drive it kills the connection flow. A normal hard drive you can shut it off but the connection still remains.
Does anyone know of mounts that I can eject hard drives out and it won’t disrupt my daisychain flow? Or are there any good enclosure systems where I can just pop in hard drives in and out easily?
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That’s the problem with disk drives in this scenario – the default OS drivers expect them to be single entities, so if you pop a drive, it’s no longer available so the OS drops it.
One solution (assuming your editing software can handle it) is to create a folder in your user folder and then place symlinks (not Aliases) via the Terminal in that folder that point to your volumes. For instance:
Your physical disks are named:
Shots Drive A
Shots Drive B
...
Shots Drive F
In your user’s folder, create a folder named “Drive Links”
Open the Terminal and cd into that folder
cd ~/Drive\ Links
Mount your drives in sequence
Create the symlinks
sudo ln -s /Volumes/Shots\ Drive\ A ./Shots\ Drive\ A
(repeat for each drive as you mount it changing A to B, C, you get the pattern) )
As you mount each volume, it’s symlink will become a valid target, but when you eject each drive, the symlink remains and yourapplictions won’t get a notice that the drive has gone offline.I can’t promise that this will work for all applications, but it does for Smoke 13, After Effects, and Premiere Pro (it doesn’t for FCP X because of their dependence on physical drives) and it works for most other “general” apps.
HTH,
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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