Hard drive woes
Added 2020-05-10 02:58:25 +0000 UTCRendering in 8k HDR sure takes up a lot of space. I finally resolved to upgrade my existing hard drive to make more room. While cloning I noticed the speed is very slow. Initially I thought the drive was broken. After some research I discovered the issue of SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording). Turn out the Seagate BarraCuda I got was based on that technology and suffered from broken write speeds.
I lost a few days over this. I have since returned the drive and am cloning to a different one now. Rendering will resume when it's working again.
Thanks for your patience!
