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With free space, better performance on external drive?
About to edit a 60-minute doc (DVCPROHD 720p 24) from abut 500GB of clips, all transferred and logged. System is MBPRO and FW800 G-RAID2 (1.5TB).
The G-RAID has other projects’ clip media, and is about 85 percent full. Cutting this long, intense doc will of course fatten up the Render and various project assets folders.
Question is, should I temporarily remove the other projects’ media from the drive?– will that give me better performance in any possible way? Even a little makes a difference.
If the answer is yes, how to do it? Make sure all data on the drive is backed up and initialize, then replace only the relevant project’s media?
Or can I simply delete all the irrelevant media and put it back when this project’s delivered? -
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The G-RAID will slow down when it becomes that full.
Copy all the unnecessary media to another FW drive (doesn’t have to be a costly nice RAID).
Drives are cheap today. Just get a 1TB raid for backup. Maybe buy two for safety, if this stuff is important. Copy everything back to the RAID if you need to edit with it in the future.
It would be preferable to erase/reformat the G-RAID, as it will eliminate fragmentation when you ‘refill’ it.
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You should never fill a drive more than 80-85% ever. Clear some space off.
-Bryan
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Thanks, gentlemen. I will make sure all is backed up on one if not two other drives, wipe the G-RAID2 clean and initialize.
I have some new OWC 1TB and 1.5TB drives that are ready and willing to help.
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As the others have already said, clear the drive off. Three general rules of thumb I follow.
Always have 100% more space than you require for capture. The more overhead, the better the performance.
Never allow a drive to fill up past 75% full.
Erase the media drives as often as possible to keep them running in the fastest condition. Fragmentation also slows them down.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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