It's not like these clients are all stars. By the way, I'm not trying to brag or anything. If anyone's got any good way of dealing with large volumes of clients (drive setup etc) I am all ears. But then I'd have all kinds of issues over the months (even setting disk allocation, fade files or something get written to the opposite drive, etc), so I said the heck with it. I used to use an external firewire as well. with the G5 only accepting one internal drive, I keep getting bigger and bigger drives. So I have never come up with a logical solution (I've tried many different ideas over the years). And new projects are starting all the time. It's just that projects take a long time to finish. Which I'm not complaining about mind you. And they may book 4-10 hours a week, every week, forever. Actually, at least 5-10 of my clients are working on year-long 7-15 song projects. It just so happens that people around here can take YEARS to finish a demo or project. All of the clients on my drives are current customers in progress. Nothing ever seems to get done around here. I wish I had a better method of dealing with this large amt of client data. I guess idefrag is out and the other method of defragging (ie copying to another drive one by one) is definitely better. In 5 years of full time service, this has never happened. And THAT will be a blessing compared to what will happen if I find out that the backups are bad too. So it's probably around 300-400 songs at 4-6 minutes a piece (lets just say about 2000 minutes) of extra crap work. (I could just import all the files from the backup mirror, but there's no guarantee the backups aren't toasted too. What freaks me out is that I now have to open EVERY SESSION, EVERY SONG for 40 plus bands that have stuff on the drive to verify the files aren't corrupt. So if I client loses a copy of their master CD, I may have to rebounce the files). Because I work with so many different bands who are in various shades of rough mixing, I usually don't back up that stuff. I do back up my work with one exception, stereo bounce files. I guess I will not be running the defraggers on my system anytime soon. But obviously those defraggers RUINED my session drive. I've emailed but haven't heard from iDefrag company. Woke up this morning to a completely destroyed disk. I ran Idefrag after last night's session. I ran Techtool 4.1.2 to optimize the drive and TT crashed. So I ran Diskwarrior and the drive checked out 100%. I needed continuous space for tracking this weekend. I bought idefrag yesterday and let it run all night. One HUGE thing I forgot to mention, I defragged my session drive last night. They look COMPLETELY different from the like-files i pulled off the backup server. I opened the session files and audio files in Text Editor. They just sound like horrible digital noise. I can open some of the audio files in iTunes. It tells me the session was made by an older version of pro tools. I cannot make a new session and import session data. even if I copy them to and from another drive. I cannot open the PT session files (says they were created with an older version of PT).
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