Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow


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Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow
by Russ Haskell on Oct 20, 2009 at 5:34:07 pm

I've had two "4th generation" drives with similar speed issues. Repeatedly dropped frames during dv capture to the brand new 1 TB model. Changed my scratch disk to my (90% full) 500 GB and I got no dropped frames.

Contacted G Tech support and they recommended zeroing out the new drive. That, BTW, was a 14 hour process. But after zeroing the new drive, the 500GB model was still 2X fast read/write - as measured by the AJA systems tests and by manually clocking a file transfer. Didn't matter whether I used FW 400 or FW 800, or whether I used a PPC Mac or an Intel Mac…the smaller drive was far faster.

Very disappointing. The first drive was bought directly from G Tech and has gone back for repair. Will have to return the second one.

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G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow by Bob Sack on Oct 19, 2009 at 9:29:06 pm
- Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow by Russ Haskell on Oct 20, 2009 at 5:34:07 pm
  - Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow by Bob Sack on Oct 20, 2009 at 5:52:41 pm
    - Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow by Bob Sack on Oct 20, 2009 at 6:08:20 pm
      - Re: G-Drive to G-Drive Transfer Very Slow by Russ Haskell on Oct 20, 2009 at 9:52:30 pm

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