Testing The Performance Of Your A/V Drives - Matrox DigiSuite LE Installation Manual

Testing the performance of your A/V drives

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To determine the maximum data rates supported by your A/V
drives:
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Click the
DigiSuite LE
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From the list of hard drives connected to your computer, select the A/V
drives you want to test. Use
or click to select a range of drives.
SHIFT+
Note
Only your writable hard drives appear in the list. All NTFS-
formatted drives (the format required for DigiSuite) are identified with
a green icon. To test a drive, you must have at least 50 MB of free disk
space on the drive.
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Under
Test Settings for All Selected Drives
size of the test files to be created. You can select
to set the file size according to a percentage of the total disk
capacity
space on the drives you're testing. To get the most accurate results,
your test files should fill about 80% of the disk capacity.
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From the Test Type
–
Single Stream Only
reading (playing back) a single video file.
–
Dual Stream Only
reading two video files simultaneously (this technique is used to
support A/B roll edits in your projects).
tab, then the
Storage
click to select drives in any order,
CTRL+
list, select the type of test you want to perform:
Tests drive performance for writing and then
Tests drive performance for writing and then
Testing the performance of your A/V drives
tab.
, drag the slider to set the
Fill x% of disk
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