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Why defragment video editing HDD?
I am a video editor.
I know the great benefits of defragmenting a hard drive. My question isn’t on the system HDD but on the HDDs that hold my captured videos and project files.What is the use to run a defragmentation on these drives if we constantly delete footage and capture new footage? Every day the drive would be fragmented anew! Do you video editors defragment video HDDs?
Thanks.
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7 Replies
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I defrag my media drives becasue I do delete large files and hope to access my new one’s as efficiently as possible. When I’ve deleted a heap of stuff I’ll defrag overnight every month or so.
Video Editing should be the number one reason to defrag because the nature of the file sizes we deal with are going to create massive fragmentation across the drive once media is moved off of it.
JB
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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One way to avoid constant defrag is to have large enough drives and more than a pair of drives, alot of people like to archive to hard drives they just fill the drive up then start a new one so the data is available without reloading
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joe, I delete huge amounts of data every few days. Do you think it would make scenes to defrag every few days?
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If you delete and add files every few days you will sooner or later start fragging files.
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How do you defrag a 500 gb drive? a 1.5 Tb drive. I tried to defrag a fairly full 500 gb SATA drive in XP on a quad core Dell and after running all night, it was still not finished. Someone suggested just buying a new drive and copying the files to it, then format the first drive. Not sure how long it takes to copy 500 gb sata, but has to be faster than defrag.
George Socka
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To George:
You can use programs like PerfectDisk or O&O Defrag Pro that can be on auto pilot and defrag in the background every time the computer is idle.
I can’t use this option because my computer works 24/6 (renders and exports over nights). I would have to defrag on weekends but like I said, I don’t see the point because as soon as I defrag, old footage will be deleted and new footage will be captured and my drive would become almost instantly framented again.
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Copying is faster than defraging, I don’t bother with either, drives are cheap, I have a bunch of external eSATA drives, both singles and arrays, operate in ext. pairs, one drive or array for source files only, one drive for project files and other clips, keeping the ammount of projects on the drives to a minimum, its easy to clean the drives off for new projects when finished with everything on a drive set
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