stug101 wrote:Thanks for the quick response - is it normally the case that the upgrade to an EARS disk works ok initially then starts to suffer performance degradation? Mine is working fine at the moment. Assuming it does start to degrade, would I then be able to copy recordings from it to another disk from a different manufacturer/range - i.e. is it merely playback which is affected by the sector size and the recordings themselves should be corruption free?
I haven't investigated this in any great detail, but I understand the fundamental problems the 4K sectors impose at the file system level.
As time goes on the recording space will get fragmented. A few clusters here, a few there. This would impose an increasing overhead of reading and writing adjoining sectors.
No idea if this would effect the underlying recordings. There is going to be substantially more performance hit with AF drives on writing than reading, so if data is being lost it would most likely happen at time of recording and as a result is likely to be unrecoverable.
Additionally you have Darwin to consider which may rule out a copy to another drive for the time being.