If you are using the external drive as a normal hard drive, (normal means dumping files one at a time onto it,) in theory it shouldn't really be fragmented at all, the files are logically 'placed' by the controller, in order. Some fragmentation will exist, but nowhere near the amount that an internal system drive will become, where files are being thrown all over the place, scattering large files in any available slot.
I once tried copying from a firewire drive to an external USB drive, what a disaster! What should of taken a matter of minutes took hours. A laptop will probably use the same I/O controller for both and be much worse, so I would do a test run first. Failing that, clear the laptop's hard drive (unwanted/needed files) onto the external and use the laptop drive for the camera, different I/O circuitry and 'should' sustain the full data rate. Otherwise I perceive dropouts will occur. Use IObit's "advanced windows care" defrag (in the advanced tools I think), that's really quick and should speed the laptop up at least for this purpose. Good luck! Barry. On 20 November 2010 08:52, Uwe Soltau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have to do a recording tonight. With the one camera I record via > firewire and laptop straight onto > an external drive instead onto the tape. > The external drive is not empty but has sufficient space available. > I thought it would be a good idea to defragment the drive. > Windows7 tells me the drive is 0% defragmented. I ran defrag anyway and > it took about > 2min to compact some files and it was done. > Having a dual boot computer I re-booted to XP and went to defrag. > Analyzing that very same drive everything is just about fragmented and > looks all red. > Defragmenter has been running for about 15min now and only 4% has been > done. > > So the Windows 7 defragmenter actually means nothing. Is there another > way in Win7 than > going to Properties > Tools? > > Uwe > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
