Drive Formating

Owned by Robert Ridder
Aug 25, 2023
1 min read

Most issues that arise during recording are media related. All the actions below can affect the state and performance of drives as well as negatively impact recording:

  • improper formatting

  • incorrect file system or cache settings

  • use of drives on other file systems before recording (e.g. offloading media on a Mac)

  • improper removal of the drives after recording

To avoid these issues, we only recommend using Samsung SSDs.  For them, Windows disk-caching settings must be set to “on.”

In addition, local SSD disks must be:

  • MBR volumes, partitioned on a Windows system

  • Formatted as NTFS

  • Formatted as a single volume