Avid Xpress Pro - Media Composer and Large Hard Drives
In today’s world of HD, the price drop in hard drives, and large the hard drives required to store all your media, more than likely you will need drives in excess of 200 gigs. I work on a system that has 4 terabytes which includes several hard drives in the 250-300 gig range. This amount of storage is very necessary for my workflow and you may have a need for even more storage. I discovered the one flaw in having drives over 200 gigs. I opened a project to find some of my media offline. The media was on the hard drive and after banging my head against my desk I found a recommendation from the Avid support center and fixed my issue. Avid systems have a hard time keeping track of media over 200 gigs. You may see this error:: HP_Domain_Failed // Frequent media corruption // not rebuilding Media Databases // over-all performance slowdown // media management. If you have any drive over 200 gigs simply partition them down to 200 gigs or smaller and this will eliminate any errors in the future. As far as which brand you should choose to start archiving all of your media, take a close look at G-Tech. They are fast and have great capacities!
