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Newbie question about movie deletion

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nineball

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Although I am new to K I have enough technical background to get me in trouble, sometimes.........

I have a MDV Vault that is full. My IDV is coming this or next week I hope. I have a 3U fully populated. I have loaded two sets of Lord of The Rings, one of them being the Extended Version. If I delete one of them (four or five disks) is there a recommended procedure or process to prevent disk fragmentation? Or does the K-Raid take care of that?

Peter
 
Hi Peter, deleting one set is obviously not a problem. Delete form both the movie list and the trash can (although deleting from the trash can isn't really necessary because the Server will do that automatically to free up space, I still do both). That will also show you (on the web utility User home page) how much space you now have for storing content.

The op system handles the fragmentation, AFAIK, there is nothing you can do about that, and in my experience it doesn't matter.


Jim
 
cinelife said:
Hi Peter, deleting one set is obviously not a problem. Delete form both the movie list and the trash can (although deleting from the trash can isn't really necessary because the Server will do that automatically to free up space, I still do both). That will also show you (on the web utility User home page) how much space you now have for storing content.

The op system handles the fragmentation, AFAIK, there is nothing you can do about that, and in my experience it doesn't matter.


Jim
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Thanks very much for that Jim. I think your practice is a good one. I suspect the OS priories space on the basis of use in the sense that files marked for deletion are left alone until all unused space is used up first. By using the trash can it probably makes whatever frag programs work more efficiently.

Thanks again,

Peter
 
Yes, that's exactly how it is done (it only takes what is needed).:)

Jim
 
I do not think fragmentation of film files is going to be a big issue considering the size of the files is going to limit the number of times a hard drive is going to need to jump sectors just to get the data and even then, the servers are designed to handle that as they are made to feed multiple streams at once. If it can serve 25+ independant DVD titles off a single data drive, can a little bit of file fragmentation really be much of an issue?
 
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