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Hard Drive Management
It is crucial that you keep your hard drive healthy since this is where all of your projects
are stored. This applies not only to the stock internal hard drive, but to any other hard
drives you use regularly for recording as well. To keep a hard drive healthy, there are a
few important rules that you should follow.
• Backup regularly (we recommend after each session).
• Perform the "Disk Cleanup" operation regularly
• Low Level Format whenever it is empty
• Always make sure your SCSI connections are high quality, approved and properly
terminated.
Backup Your Stuff!
Backing up is an important part of any digital recording, just like backing up any
financial records you may have stored in your desktop computer. Nothing is absolutely
100% reliable. 99% maybe, but do we really want to trust that our priceless recordings
will not fall into that 1%? No way! Tapes sometimes break, hard drives sometimes
crash, things get dropped and broken, recordings get erased, soft drinks get spilled,
sunglasses get crushed… you get the idea. If it’s worth recording then it’s worth making
a back-up copy. Regular back ups ensure that, even if something bad does happen
before your next back up, you will never lose too much of your work. Backup after
every session or at the end of each day.
Always make sure you have backed up your projects before erasing them. This might
seem obvious, but do not assume you will never need to recall a particular project
again, and then erase it. You can never tell when you might need to recall an old project
for some reason later.
If you did not purchase a backup solution with your MX-2424, now is a good time to do
so while you are experimenting and getting to know your new recorder. Following are
explanations of some backup solutions.
You can easily back up to your personal computer via Ethernet then archive the data to
any media supported by the computer. No matter how big the project is, this method
automatically creates CDR-size files on the computer for archival to inexpensive CDR
media., Or you can backup directly to DVD-RAM on the MX-2424. Other backup
possibilities include using a removable hard drive system to physically move a hard
drive from the MX-2424 to a computer where the data can be backed up to any media
supported by that particular computer. A DVD-RAM drive or removable hard drive
system may be installed in the front panel of the MX-2424 or attached to its rear wide
SCSI port. Let’s look at the reasons for using each backup option to help you choose
the one you need.