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New External 500G Drive SLOW – Configuration?
I just added a Maxtor 500G external hard drive to my G4 Mac via the USB cable included with the hardware.
One, I cannot capture video to that drive (FCP sees the drive fine, but displays an error when batch capture begins.) And two, when I move media to that drive from my internal drive (which is also a very unusually slow process,)and then re connect the media to that external drive, FCP sees it and behaves correctly, but is VERY slow to react to my edits and moving around on the timeline.
Is this normal for external drives or is there a configuration or cabling factor I am not aware of here?
Thank you in advance for your response.
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4 Replies
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Look if the HD is “Jounaled”. If so set it as “Un-journaled”. Also open the “info” window and check “Ignore ownership on this volume. This may help.
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[TheWarden] “I just added a Maxtor 500G external hard drive to my G4 Mac via the USB cable included with the hardware.”
Coonection via USB is not suitable for video as sustained throughput is not high enough. Connect using a firewire 400 cable and you’ll be fine with that hard drive.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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Did you format the drive as Mac OS Extended before digitizing to it? Sometimes the device comes out of the box formatted for PC. Also, depending on what format you are digitizing, you will have success using FW400 for DV, but for anything else, i.e. 8-bit UC, DVCProHD, etc., you should use FW 800. Turning journaling off will help too, though I have used FW drives with Journaling on for years without any major setbacks. Actually, I like the idea that it is on only because FW drives tend to get unpatched or unmounted accidentally more so than, say, a dedicated XServe RAID via fibre, so pick your poison.
[BTW, journaling is intended to act as a way for your HDD to maintain an up to date record of your read/write events so that it can recover from a bad disconnect or power failure faster.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system
No single connection will work with a standard FW drive for SD 10-bit UC or 1080 uncompressed. [10- bit UC SD will work briefly for a totally empty drive via FW800, but it will not perform properly soon after that.] You will need a RAID configuration of some sort and either a fancy schmancy SCSI, fibre or SATA connection to do sustain the data rate required.
steve covello
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I have an old G4 D1Ghz and the built-in USB ports are USB 1.1. I’d think that is your problem.
Dexter McBride
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