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64 • Installation & Administration Guide
Chapter 6 • Managing Your Windows 2000 Workstation
Drive Maintenance
To prevent problems, you should keep at least 10% of the disk space on each
drive free at all times. Keep in mind that during video media archiving, drive D:
(Video Storage drive) is used to store files for any alpha material in the project.
When you run Avid|DS, it creates two interactive cache files on the Video
Storage drive. These two files (DS_interactive_cache.tmp and
DS_interactive_cache.tmp.lowres) can use up as much as 500 megabytes
of your video storage area, and are mandatory for Avid|DS.
If there isn’t enough available space for these files to be created, the system
performance will drop dramatically. You may even experience a system
failure. You should regularly purge unnecessary media files from the system
to allow Avid|DS to work properly. For more information, refer to Purging
Media on page 56 of the Avid|DS User’s Guide.
Defragmenting your
Drives
Performing a defragmentation on the disk drives helps to maintain your
system’s performance. The following is a suggested defragmentation schedule:
On Windows 2000 workstations, you can use the Windows 2000 Disk
Defragmenter utility to defragment your disk drives.
Drive Frequency
C:\ (System disk) Once a month, if required
D:\ (VideoStorage) Once a week if workload is minimal; every day if workload
is intensive
F:\ (Projects/Audio) Once a month if workload is minimal; once a week if
workload is intensive
Do not defragment your drives while Avid|DS is capturing,
outputting, or processing media.