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Is it okay to have 500 files in just 1 folder and all of the files are like 1 hour long so 500 hours?
I am saving all of my Dragon Ball Z and other TV shows on an external hard drive. I just got a 8TB and notice the drive was making a noise when I was using it. I would skip to a part of the video and it would make noise. This has also happened to the other one in the past.
You can do 500 files in a folder, I have some systems that have well over that number of (admittedly much smaller) files. The drive making noises and skipping part of the video would have me making a backup of that drive pronto.
This is a brand new 8TB Seagate external hard drive. It makes a buffering noise when I skip on the videos and when playing them. I bought this hard drive to backup what I have on the other one since on the 5TB I noticed some lagging and skipping on videos. On the 8TB I dont see this problem but it buffers and for the past 6 days I been transferring from the old to the new and today is the last day so it took 6 days. I been transferring folders by folders and files by files, never exceeding 25gb at a time.
Once, many moons ago, I wrote a document management system that used the server file system. Found out that the performance dropped when the system had to access a folder containing 5000+ files. Turns out that there's a soft limit to number of files in a folder and system performance. I honestly don't know where the soft limit actually is, as my solution to the performance problem was to subdivide the contents into a three tier (10x10x10) structure of a thousand folders, and to distribute the files evenly across the folder structure (about 50 per folder).
A few years ago, my PC started experiencing some serious overhead and performance issues. Turned out that Microsoft Visual Studio introduced a new debugging feature that had the unpleasant side effect of creating temp files in one folder, which never got cleared out. When I finally (and with help) found the folder jammed with temp files, it had reached 1200 files.
If it was me saving my DragonBall Z and other TV shows to a hard drive, I'd make a folder for each TV show, and then a sub-folder for each season of that show, and drop the video files into the appropriate \show\season\ folder.
Why not simply upload your files to the cloud - and access them when you want them. That way, it won't matter how you store or access them nor degrade your system's performance.
Why not simply upload your files to the cloud - and access them when you want them. That way, it won't matter how you store or access them nor degrade your system's performance.
8TB worth of files?
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