Recommended hard drive for DCP?

[Toby Tomkins]

I like the WD3200AAKS personally, 320GB but should fit all feature length DCPs. It’s a server-class/AV HDD so it’s used to constant access and constant read operations (no overheating issues etc, better reliability compare to normal consumer drives). I’m sure there are 500/640GB versions or even newer generations you can use.

Use a CRU-DataPort StorCase DataExpress DX115 DC 6600-7100-0500 / 6606-5000-0500 Carrier+Frame for the enclosure. All cinema accept that.

Good luck.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Thank you so much for the info. Great tip!!!

[Joseph Owens]

[Gustavo Bermudas] “I know it has to be Linux formatted”

That’s the DCI format, true, but I have had some testing success with NTFS-formatted drives, as well.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[James Falk]

Hello, can you tell me please if I can put my DCP on a usb portable external hard drive?
Like a Seagate Expansion 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

Thanks

[Ola Haldor voll]

A friend of mine uses SATA drives. That’s on a Doremi server. Guess it depends on what server you’re feeding.

[Sebastian Leitner]

NTFS works on DOREMI and some other servers (with the latest firmware).

the easiest way to deliver an EXT2 formatted harddisk (without using any linux) is the following though:

make your DCP with openDCP, then install Acronis Disk Director (the trial version will do, you can also burn a boot CD for any type of operating system) and follow these steps:

connect external harddrive, format it with Disk Director to EXT2 (cluster size 4KB) and after that change the i-node size to 128KB (right click on the harddisk -> change i-node size). do not forget to click on “commit changes” after each step.

the hard disk does not need to be set to “primary” or “active” in case you wonder. the 2 steps above are enough. windows: the Acronis Disk Director comes with all the drivers you need, so you can copy your DCP content (root folder) on it. mac: you need a 3rd-party driver to read/write ext2/3 file systems. you can either use the freeware Fuse with the Ext2/3 extension or Paragon EXTFS (also available as a trial).

[Aaron Owen]

Or if you’re on a mac, you can use DCP Transfer which does basically automates the formatting and validation operations.

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftjF4jFZVc

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