Recently upgraded to an HP Z840, 32 GB, Quadro K 4200 on Windows 7. No problems working with existing media or writing to my existing G-Tech GSpeed es RAID 5 sets, each of which show up in Windows as 2.72 TB.
Today I added a GSpeed es 16 TB device (four 4-TB drives), configured as RAID 5, and mounted in Windows as one logical drive. Windows sees the drive, but Media Composer doesn't want to encode (cosolodate from external shot media). MC hangs completely when I try this. I'm brining in AVC-Intra 100 footage that was sent to me on a USB 3 portable drive. No problem consolodating this media to the existing smaller RAID units.
Could it be possible that even though Windows 7 can see the large (over 10 tb) partition, that MC doesn't want to work with it? If I partition the large RAID down to something more managable, is there "do not exceed" partition size for media drives, even in a RAID configuration?
Thanks, in advance, for your response.
Panam
If windows can see the OS then so should MC. Not had an issue with large RAIDS (I have a 16TB RAID 0)
IS the drive formated as NTFS (I presume so) are permissions correct (security)?
HAs MC made an Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder?
Do you have AV software excluding that drive from scans etc?
Can MC do a video mixdown or create a title to the drive?
Have you tried copying large files to and from the drive?
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I have a g-speed es SAS 16TB and have no problems at all using it with Avid. In fact my system works MUCH better with it than with the eSATA drives I was using.
Are you connecting your external USB3 drive to a USB3 port? I have had issues with external drives being too slow to keep up on USB 2. I do use an eSATA 4TB raid 0 to hold my raw XDCAM-EX files. It is fast enough to keep up thru AMA and then when we are done we transcode to DNXHD 145 on the SAS Raid.
The problem ended up being operator error, in that I had installed the raid card in the wrong slot -- I made a poor assumption based on my last installation, instead of reading the slot guide more closely for the Z840. All seems to be working well now. Thank you!
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