Silvain,
this mail (and another from you) arrived here four times each. This is most
likely not your fault. I noticed that they travelled across 16(!) servers
before they reached my mail provider's MTA, which is certainly unusual.
There might be a mail routing problem inside Avid's network. You should
perhaps contact some IT person and show them these messages including
headers.
-Roy
> Bob, you're a dream-user for support people like us. :)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Bob Maple Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: De Frag...Should I or shouldn't I ?????
>
> Here is my method:
>
> I do NOT obsessively defrag (nightly, or even weekly). I defrag my
> video drives once every month or so (sometimes even less) but only
> when I get down a point where I have very few projects online and the
> video drives are relatively empty as possible (75% free space or
> more).
>
> NTFS is a pretty crappy filesystem, and will start fragmenting almost
> immediately even on a clean drive.. it's pretty much impossible to
> keep it looking perfect all the time, and you don't necessarily want
> it that way anyway. But when you've been turning over a LOT of data
> for a long period of time, eventually you're left with tons of tiny
> little holes scattered all over the place, with few contiguous
> stretches of empty blocks to write to - so when you capture something
> new, the media is being busted up into tons of tiny little pieces
> which can kill performance. Thats when you run into dropped frames,
> if the drives are having to crazily seek all over the place just to
> read/write a small amount of data.
>
> What AVID is saying is that you don't need to really deal with it
> until you actually have a problem, and that defragging nightly or
> weekly (or obsessively in general) is usually just a waste of time
> because even with fragmentation, you probably weren't really having a
> performance issue in the first place. Thats why they suggest only
> defragging individual files on an as-needed basis if you start
> dropping frames.
>
> In SD, I've _never_ had a dropped frame that I can blame on
> fragmentation. In uncompressed HD, drive performance is obviously a
> much bigger issue, and you're likely to see it more often.
>
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