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Minimum space required on HDD
Ian26 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline
[Post New] Oct 31, 2014 20:50
Hello there,

I have an Imation Apollo 1TB USB 3 portable drive attached to my system which has 866GB free of 931GB, which I am using to save PD12 projects and associated files/directories, but it appears not to be the ideal choice as it is giving me grief at the moment. I have a 160GB HDD sitting in a drawer at the moment. If I installed this in my new Dell XPS 8700, and used this as the dedicated save drive, would there be sufficient space on it?

The directories I have on the Imation drive needed for PD12 are:
Freeplay MusicWav - with 2.82GB of files.
Miscellaneous(Misc) - with1.10GB of files.
Power Director In with - 11GB of files
Power Director Out - also with 11GB of files

Thanks

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Oct 31. 2014 21:02

IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D
fkaMikeB
Senior Member Location: Ohio, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2014 23:22 Messages: 217 Offline
[Post New] Oct 31, 2014 21:00
I have a 160GB HDD sitting in a drawer at the moment. If I installed this in my new Dell XPS 8700, and used this as the dedicated save drive, would there be sufficient space on it?
By my calculation there would be sufficient space to store no more than 160GB of PD12 projects and associated files/directories.
Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|
Ian26 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline
[Post New] Oct 31, 2014 21:15
By my calculation there would be sufficient space to store no more than 160GB of PD12 projects and associated files/directories.


I realise my wording was a bit ambiguous but was wondering if it would be OK in the long term. (Even that statement doesn't sound right ). It's just that I don't want grief every time I'm working on projects, as the PC and PD12 are running 24/7, and I have autosave for every 10 minutes. I know, turn off/shutdown PD12 after every session. But I'm lazy .

I was editing the post as you were replying.
IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D
fkaMikeB
Senior Member Location: Ohio, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2014 23:22 Messages: 217 Offline
[Post New] Oct 31, 2014 21:44
No. I get what you mean.

In general the project files are going to be relatively small compared to your media assets (video, audio, photos). You could store these things on your external USB drive and just bring the ones you need for a specific project to the 160GB drive for editing. (See also the project management tutorials by PDtoots)

Under Preferences> General there is a checkbox you can check and set how frequently you want temporary files to be auto-deleted.

Turn off shadow file creation (if you don't need it) to save space.

You can also open up PDR and click the produce tab to see available time and/space on the drive if you need to.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Oct 31. 2014 21:59

Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|
Ian26 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline
[Post New] Oct 31, 2014 22:05
Ok.

Thanks Mike
IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D
Ian26 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline
[Post New] Nov 01, 2014 01:52
I have just discovered that the 160GB drive I was going to use is a PATA drive and not SATA, but I have an 80GB SATA drive. I think I might try that. With the info I want to put on a dedicated drive, I would still have 63 - 64GB free. Would any of the "Gurus" here recommend that?

I don't want to rush a reply, but I would like an answer ASAP so I can get my tech son to come and do it ASAP.

Thanks in advance for being understanding. IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] Nov 01, 2014 10:18
Quote: I have just discovered that the 160GB drive I was going to use is a PATA drive and not SATA, but I have an 80GB SATA drive. I think I might try that. With the info I want to put on a dedicated drive, I would still have 63 - 64GB free. Would any of the "Gurus" here recommend that?

I don't want to rush a reply, but I would like an answer ASAP so I can get my tech son to come and do it ASAP.

Thanks in advance for being understanding.

Whether you can use the 160 GB IDE (PATA) drive is a matter of if your computer's motherboard has a IDE drive connector.

I think most computers still have an IDE interface even when the drives in use are SATA.

It would give your computer an extra 160 GB of storage space internally.
Internal drives are faster access than external USB drives.

While you are thinking about putting more space in your computer, why not a much larger hard drive, you can get SATA drives in huge capacities.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Ian26 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline
[Post New] Nov 01, 2014 20:15
While you are thinking about putting more space in your computer, why not a much larger hard drive, you can get SATA drives in huge capacities.


Thanks Carl, the "Ministry of Finance" may not like that suggestion, but I will keep it in mind. I'll wait til my son gets here and see if the 160GB drive can be used. Otherwise I will use the 80GB as it will only be used for PD12.

Thanks again. IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D
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