edius taking forever to open

[antonsvideo]

says their all healthy
i was able to open a new project but i cant open any of my other ones that ive been working on

none of the backups open?

[jimstamos]

you mean under autosave where there are numbers after the name of the project?

[jimstamos]

im really worried that i can open anything. dont know what to do.under disc managment if i rt clik on the drive theres a tab where i can check disc for errors. does this just check or does it fix them??
ive edited flawlessly on this machine for almost a year and now this happens.
couldnt happen at a worst time

[David Harry]

Try a speed test on your raid. Also, try copying a very large file, maybe one of your video files from the project that had problems opening, to and from your desktop. Doing this should give you a feel of what your data speeds are like compared to what they should be like. Again with an older larger file on the raid, one from a problematic project, try copying it to another place on the raid and see how that feels.

What is your raid monitoring software, and your hardware monitoring on the raid box itself?

From what you are saying so far, it sounds like you either have corruption in the striped set or one of you drives is either broke or getting there.

Your first thing should be to back up your raid, if it is not too late. Because if it's a faulty drive in a 0 striped set, you may end up kissing goodbye to all those zerros and ones as they fade off into the ether.

[jimstamos]

i have so many projects on my system. i cant believe this is happening. had no issues since i got this system a year ago. the files are mxf files. earlier i was able to open one of the project files under auto save , now i cant. what a f...ing mess. how would i back everything up ? to an external?? and if i can, would i then be able to open the projects off that external??
how do i do the speed test??

[David Harry]

Back up to an external or secondary internal would be quicker. If I was you I would not be so concerned with being able to run the projects, but more so the fact that you have saved your valuable data at this point.

You can always move your data back when you have sorted the raid.

You should have speed testing and diagnostic software that came with the raid. Windows will also tell you the data rate when moving files, going to and from your boot drive and raid should be somewhere between 80 to 100 meg per second. Internal file copying on your raid should be faster again.

Just moving data about should give you fairly obvious indications as to speed issues, you should notice the difference between your usual system environment before your problem. If you can't copy some of the suspect files, that would be a real big indication.

What raid system are you using?

What raid card does it use?

[jimstamos]

raid 0, i have 3 WD Caviar black 1tb each. so far ive been able to move data pretty well.
anton suggested i shouldnt be using these drives and use wd enterprise instead.
i did raid 0 because im told that this will give you best performance. what raid should i do so i wont have to deal with this mess again?and will that slow my editing perfromance??

[David Harry]

If you are moving data pretty well, then this may now suggest there is no problem with your raid?

I don't use WD drives so don't know the specs. Anton may well have experience with these, hence his comment. Enterprise drives are supposedly feature matched and have tolerances that are designed for raid/striped use. There maybe certain green/power/tec issues with your drives that don't make them suitable for raid. At the very least they should all be the same firmware revision.

If you can answer the more direct questions I asked, either me or someone else may be able to help a little more.

[jimstamos]

whatim also puzzled about david is that i couldnt open up any of my projects, it would stay on loading project forever.trying to open from my external will tell me alot.not sure about the speed test software. i had this system built at microcenter a year ago. will have to see if they gave me the software, doubt it.that being the case, what should i do to test the speed

[David Harry]

What is the raid system and raid card? Thanks.

[antonsvideo]

anton, i hope this isnt a major problem, but.... i have 3WD Black Caviar 1TB Each Raid 0. ON bootup, one drive says in red Error Occured. any idea what this means, and could this be the reason no projects will open

download diskspeed

http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P13/Disk%20Speed

your Raid must read 330mb/sec, if less, it is faulty

do you see the drive as one drive in disk management or as 3 drives? if one drive, it means you are using a raid card and need to use the raid utilty for your card to test the drives, and since you already said that during boot you had a warning, it only confirms that you may have a damaged drive

I am sure one of your drives has a bad sector, that is why you can't open projects but you can make new projects

[Jerry]

i have so many projects on my system. i cant believe this is happening. had no issues since i got this system a year ago.

Jim, if this is the system you had built by the box store, you have had nothing but problems with it. Look at your past posts.

Do your drives have sufficient cooling. Heat is the number one cause of drive failure. I don't just mean case fans either. My drives are in a cooled backplane or behind a dedicated fan with enough open space for circulation.
If you do not have cooling, replacing the drive will just be a stopgap measure.
You will be in the same boat again.

Also, a raid 0 really shouldn't be used for storage...just editing. If you have that many projects stored on the raid, and it fails, you loose. Either, get another backup method, use a drive per project, or get a couple of more drives and create a raid 5. At least if it fails you have a way to retrieve it.

At that point, I would recommend a true raid card and at least 5 drives...for raid 5.