Movies stutter when copied to NTFS

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Ben Wakefrd

Hi all! Help! :)

I've just installed a new Matrox 160GB hard disk and
formatted it using NTFS. After copying all my files across
from my old FAT32 disk, I've now discovered that certain
movie files (MPEG and AVI) stutter when I play them back
off the NTFS.

It's not a hardware issue per se, because I still have the
FAT32 hooked up and they play fine off that, even when
copied back onto it.

As making movies is what I do for a living this is HUGELY
critical!

Can anyone help?! A thousand thank-yous if you hold the
key!

Cheers

Ben
 
Two things might be affecting this:

1. The files may be fragmented. Try running the system
defragment tool. If you have a lot of BIG files, then it might
take a while (start it off before you go to sleep).
2. There may be other disk activity on that volume. Is it shared
on a network? Do you have index service running and indexing
that volume?

HTH
 
Ben Wakefrd said:
Hi all! Help! :)

I've just installed a new Matrox 160GB hard disk and
formatted it using NTFS. After copying all my files across
from my old FAT32 disk, I've now discovered that certain
movie files (MPEG and AVI) stutter when I play them back
off the NTFS.

It's not a hardware issue per se, because I still have the
FAT32 hooked up and they play fine off that, even when
copied back onto it.

As making movies is what I do for a living this is HUGELY
critical!
Click to expand...

Is that Maxtor a 5400 RPM drive? Is the FAT32 disk a 7200 RPM disk?
Depending on the data rate of your movie, it's possible that you are just
trying to get data too fast for the disk to supply it...

Another possibility is that you have the Maxtor hooked up with another
device, such as a CD ROM, which is stealing enough bandwidth to cause
starvation. Is it possible to put it on it's own ATA channel?
Does your ATA adapter sit on a PCI bus that might have other traffic, such
as network traffic on it?

Hollywood types like to use big arrays of SCSI drives...

Phil
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