VST host has stopped working

[antonsvideo]

but the slow speed of backup/restore must drive you mad

[PaulTV]

why is it slow? It runs as fast as my raid 5 boxes - SAS 6Gbs so I get about 160mbs on LTO 6 - if you run LTO 7 you get 300mbs - it's not at all like those old DLT machines.

I use LTO 6 as the drives themselves are affordable - and I pay 10 -15 euros for 2.5 TB

Paul :-)

[Ron Evans]

I think Paul means 160MBs and 300MBs as fast as my hard drives close to SSD's. Still keep my old LTO3 yes it is slow but very cheap to store even saved me when my NAS got corrupted.

[PaulTV]

Correct Ron !! LTO is the way to go - I would like an LTO 7 .... it will work on win 10 and it's back compatible - reads and writes LTO 6 and reads LTO 5...

Paul :-)

[createmedia]

"I'm doing a clean build of 9.54 and come to load Wavearts and point the VST bridge at the Steinberg folder, restart and get a vst host has stopped working warning.

I have another identical build with the same iteration - and it all works as it should.

Thoughts before I throw this thing in the bin?"

Hi Paul

Do you get a details to click on in the message window about the VST Host has stopped working?

Looking round the web two things came forward

1. The folder that the VST plugins were in did not have administrator permissions, they had been reset somehow and
2. A poster had this error in Vegas. The error details pointed to an MSVCR error and the guy downloaded the latest Visual C and did a repair install and it fixed it.

Does the error appear in Windows event viewer? If so what are the details?

Mike

[antonsvideo]

why is it slow? It runs as fast as my raid 5 boxes - SAS 6Gbs so I get about 160mbs on LTO 6 - if you run LTO 7 you get 300mbs - it's not at all like those old DLT machines.

I use LTO 6 as the drives themselves are affordable - and I pay 10 -15 euros for 2.5 TB

Paul :-)

what is the lifetime expectancy of LTO tapes

[PaulTV]

Thirty years ....for LTO 6 I think newer tape types may be better.

https://preferredmedia.com.au/7-reasons-why-we-use-lto/

Paul :-)

[antonsvideo]

but and there are some buts

1. the drives are like $4k upwards
2. they require SAS, so you need a special PC with SAS
3. the drives are out of stock in most shops that sell them

[PaulTV]

Thats one reason I went Dell LTO 6, paid 1000€ for the drive, which came with HBA pcie card and a SAS cable.

The last load of tapes I bought were 8€ each, sealed. O that's 80€ for 23Tb uncompressed data storage.

Whilst my system won't run on win 10 as the LTFS software is for 7 ( free ) I have my 7 install so it's no biggy really.

LTO7 in europe are 2.5k€ but as you say if you go LTO 8 or 9 they are at least 5k.

I keep my projects complete on Raid 5 until the client gives the OK for archive then I move it to tape, takes about an hour and a half per Tb.

Paul :-)