rlawther Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Hi, We've got a Watchout setup at the moment that has 1 head node (audio, no video) and 4 render nodes (video only). We use pre-sliced video content. Each machine has 3 hard drives in it. Let's say I have 3 video files, c.mov, d.mov, and e.mov. On my head node they are placed at - c:\content\c.mov - d:\content\d.mov - e:\content\e.mov However on the render nodes they get placed at - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\C_\content\c.mov - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\D_\content\d.mov - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\E_\content\e.mov And so now my e: drive is full while the c: and d: are virtually empty. Is there a way I can specify where these files should be located on the render nodes so that I can spread them out across the drives? Cheers, - Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfk Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Hi, We've got a Watchout setup at the moment that has 1 head node (audio, no video) and 4 render nodes (video only). We use pre-sliced video content. Each machine has 3 hard drives in it. Let's say I have 3 video files, c.mov, d.mov, and e.mov. On my head node they are placed at - c:\content\c.mov - d:\content\d.mov - e:\content\e.mov However on the render nodes they get placed at - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\C_\content\c.mov - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\D_\content\d.mov - e:\watchout6\shows\showreel\Media\E_\content\e.mov And so now my e: drive is full while the c: and d: are virtually empty. Is there a way I can specify where these files should be located on the render nodes so that I can spread them out across the drives? Cheers, - Rob Short answer to your specific questions is no. All media for single show must reside on the same logical drive. Would make some sense to combine like drives into a RAID to address this. Otherwise, Windows does provide a solution to your question. You can combine multiple physical drives into a single logical drive. For example: How to Combine Multiple Hard Drives Into One Volume for Cheap, High-Capacity Storage How to Combine Multiple Partitions Into a Single Partition Basic and Dynamic Disks (Windows) - MSDN - Microsoft etc. If you want to install WATCHOUT on one drive and store media in an alternate location, see info on the showpath command line switch in the WATCHOUT User Forum post Forcing WO display pc's to use second disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlawther Posted August 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Thanks for the quick reply. I agree a RAID setup would have been a good choice when the system was first setup, but reconfiguring isn't really an option at this point. I'll see if I can get something working with junctions (ie. windows directory symlinks) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx. Thanks again, - Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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