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Kernel Panic, FCP, LaCie Bigger Disk!!!
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Braden,
Yes, that’s what I thought I had said. 😉
I wasn’t sure that anyone would understand it as such.
In the System Settings window/dialog in FCP (shift-Q), you would set everything there (scratch disk, thumbnail and waveform caches, and autosave vault) to your second internal drive (non-startup drive). Render files go to the “scratch disk.” Sorry about not being more specific.
Another way to look at things is to make a flowchart of what happens while you use FCP. Media files are only read (except for certain media manager operations), project files are read and written, render files are read and written (probably the heaviest disk I/O of all file types, cache files are read and written, etc. Depending on the media/CODEC you’re using, number of tracks, and so on, you benefit by separating these file types onto different hard drives, or hard drive arrays (volumes don’t count).
Again, for your current situation, the above suggestion will serve you well. I should comment that most FW800 external, multidisk drives work better (faster I/O due to the use of multiple drives in the case) than single-drive units. Keep FW400 and FW800 drives off of the same bus (the current G5s, PowerPC at least, only have one FW bus). Using a PCI FW800 host card for your media drives may give you better performance, especially if you capture from your deck/camcorder via FW to the external FW800 drives.
This should give you a little to think about….
-Dave
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Dave,
Great posts – thanks a lot. Might even pick up the book you recommended.
Cheers,
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[debe] “Projects files should never be on external drives,”
Bad advice, nothing wrong with having a project stored externally – ever heard of a SAN?
Peter
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Of course, you’re right, Peter.
My post was tailored to the original posters use of external firewire drives.
I meant a single FW drive when I said external drive. Of course a SAN is a different animal altogether. For this poster’s issues, however, the difference seems to be moot. For general audiences, of course you are more accurate than I.
I apologize for not being more detailed in my post.
debe
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