Working with an external Hard Drive, do you put project Local?

[David Roth weiss]

Project files should always reside on your system drive rather than a media drive.

[Chris Collins] “How do YOU work with external drives?”

All media drives are always external on my system.

I would suggest that rather than differentiating between external and internal drives, just keep it simple, your system drive is for apps and project files, your media drive(s) for all else.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Chris Collins] ”
Where should my project live?
Where should my autosave, cache, etc. live?”

Project Files, AutoSave and Cache files should all live on your local hard drive, never the external media drive. Only media should reside on the external drives.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Chris Collins]

Great, thanks a lot.

I thought that was what i was supposed to do, and it just threw me off when i switched it to ‘system’ drives, and it started crashing.

(TUrns out it was a corrupt piece of media after some frustrating research time…)

Thanks!
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[Michael Sacci]

Curious, is the project file on the system drive for security or performance?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Michael Sacci] “Curious, is the project file on the system drive for security or performance?”

More for security and also to keep it from becoming corrupted.

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[Michael Sacci]

And I guess with TIme Machine running, putting it on the system drive makes even more sense since you get another layer of backups.

[Jeremy Doyle]

In our situation with 12 edit suites running SanMp, I keep my project files on the raid along with the media and set my autosave up for my system drive. I also have my autosave set for 5 minutes so I’m never really out to much time in case of a crash.

The reason I do it this way is because then I don’t have to have file sharing turned on and it’s easy for other editors or designers to find the project.