1TB SATA Drive Makes DVDA 5 Very slow

ChipGallo wrote on 1/14/2010, 10:56 AM

I had been building DVDA discs from MPEG2 output from Vegas. I added a reformatted SATA3 drive and tried to use a render from there. DVDA became very slow and something like inserting chapters was not working due to sluggish refreshes of the timeline.

I switched back to having the render from Vegas on the C drive and all is fast again. Any ideas on what could be causing this? The 1TB drive is internal and otherwise appears to work correctly (Vegas 9 can write renders to it and they play). It is a Samsung Spinpoint F1.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/14/2010, 12:35 PM

First make sure that your new drive is formatted NTFS rather than FAT32, as they are by default. FAT32 drives have a file size limitation that can cause problems with video editing.

Second, ensure that your new drive is set up in the BIOS as well as the operating system.

To get to the BIOS, press ESC or F1 (or whatever your particular computer requires) at the logo screen that appears when you first start up your computer, before Windows begins to boot up.

If your drive is not set up in the BIOS, you will get very sluggish performance.

ChipGallo wrote on 1/15/2010, 10:26 AM

Thanks Steve. I did a full NTFS format during drive initialization. I checked that the drive parameters were correct in the system BIOS.

This Samsung drive may have a hardware or firmware issue. I researched them and a bunch of early ones had problems. I had used the drive last year, unplugged it from the SATA connector and when I plugged it back in, the file system on the drive had disappeared. I attributed the problem to unplugging it and replugging to a different SATA port but maybe it has a real problem. The Samsung diagnostic I got from their forum didn't work so I need to spend some guality time troubleshooting this thing.