Topic: MC9: Any Hard Drive Size Limitations ? (Read 1632 times)

emailtim · « **on:** February 08, 2004, 04:55:48 pm »

What limitations does MC 9 have with respect to:

1) Number of Albums, Songs, Tags?
2) Size of hard drive < 60GB, < 120GB, < 250GB < 300 GB, < 350GB, etc.?
3) Number of hard drives?
4) Number of partitions?

I am using Win2K with a 250GB NTFS data drive. MC 9 corrupted

the 250GB drive when it reached 120GB of WAV content.

If anyone can define MC's upper bounds and limitations, or indiate how to enable large drive support in MC9, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

sapnho · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2004, 12:44:58 am »

I am using two 250GB full of APEs on a dedicated jukebox and have not encountered a problem; > 20,000 titles

emailtim · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2004, 01:18:21 am »

Sapnho,

What OS and file system are you using?

Thanks,
Tim

MarSies · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2004, 02:12:17 am »

Emailtim,

I also use 2 disks of 250GB, the ape format and hardware striping. I upgraded from 2 disks of 120GB. I haven't seen any limitations on these serial ATA disks.

Although some strange behaviour according to the available diskspace. But I think that that is an XP issue. The available amount of diskspace seems to grow eventhough I rip more CD's, very strange.

MarSies .....

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2004, 04:22:58 am »

Marsies,

Do you have compression turned on on the drives?? This could explain why it appears that you are getting more diskspace as XP could be compressing the drive...

Adam

MarSies · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2004, 04:48:13 am »

Is it useful to compress a partition when using ape? This is a compression technique, so I guess that using XP compressiing is a waist of CPU time. No, I don't use compression!!

I also had this with ripped DV tapes. When deleting a 13GB file it seems that the space is not released. According to file manager the space is occupied eventhough the file is not there anymore.

One thing of MC that puzzels me is that it appears that files that are not anymore on the system seem to still reserve their space. My database has entry's of songs that are physically not on the RAID set. When deleting them from the database MC indicates less used diskspace.

MarSies .....

gbdesai · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:29:13 am »

sapnho,

What type of dedicated jukebox are you using. I'm trying to find something reliable. I've had a terrible time with a variety of different products that are fairly unreliable.

bspachman · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2004, 01:17:02 pm »

I haven't had problems either, 2*80GB, 1*120GB and moving this week to 1TB Raid5 array. Primarily APE files with a doubled library of MP3 for iPod usage.

My machine is also dedicated to MC.

I haven't noticed anything strange with my disk space, but I'm running Win2k.

Best,
Brad

sapnho · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2004, 01:23:05 pm »

Quote from: gbdesai on February 09, 2004, 11:29:13 am

sapnho,

What type of dedicated jukebox are you using. I'm trying to find something reliable. I've had a terrible time with a variety of different products that are fairly unreliable.

I use Windows XP and although I haven't upgraded the drives on the website, you find everything here www.audio-jukebox.com

gbdesai · « **Reply #9 on:** February 09, 2004, 03:00:33 pm »

Thanks!

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