nukedeath

Hey guys I figured it out. I copied over my old DNXHR encoded project and it ran without any problems so I had to do some digging on Resolve. The problem it seems is that the free version of Davinci Resolve is a heroin addict on withdrawal when it comes to video files that are h264. I spent 4 hours transcoding all my files with Davinci Resolve's Media Manager to DNXHR HQ and saw a staggering 10 times increase in disk usage. Now everything is works fine and shows bandwidth usage of around 800Mbit and spikes up to 1.2Gbit when working over the network. So I don't need a feature to spread the files anymore, I just need to buy larger hard drives. Thank you everyone for chiming in on solutions.

Ey thanks man, I will try the Unbalance plugin. With that I can test If I really would get a better editing experience by spreading all the files. I do not use a cache pool for editing as of now. Right now my problem with editing in Resolve seems to be related to it wanting to scan ALL THAT IT CAN at the SAME TIME, and when all the files is on one disk it boggs down a lot. In current project I have only the camera h264 files at 100 mbit so thats not much reads. But the other project I only used DNXHR HQ transcodes to speed up editing, and they ranged from 83 MB/s to 103 MB/s. Let's say I used a cache pool for editing. What if I wanted to "Promote" a 2 year old project from the archive to the cache pool for editing again If that possible?

Most Free could work If I didn't already use the server for other things. The feature i'm asking for is a new Allocation method that spreads the files over all the drives to "possibly" speed up video editing.

Yes, that it what I want. I want each separate file, to be placed on separate drives. So when my editor starts scanning, I don't want it to fetch all the files from one drive, I want it to fetch the separate video files from as many drives as possible. When editing, one larger file would be as slow as one drive yes. That I can see, and survive. But there are so many files that are scanned when going through a timeline, it would be a huge performance boost.

Hello! I am currently editing my videos over Unraid and it is very slow reading the files. And that is because of the High Water share setting. I tough about making a new share just for video editing, to keep high water on the other shares. But I cannot see any setting that allows me to force it to spread all the files over all the drives. That would massively increase the read performance for video editing. Importing videos on a timeline in Resolve on files spread over 10 drives would max out a 10gbe connection. But as of now, resolve spends ages scanning the files, and rescanning on timeline zoom changes. Heck it hasn't even finished scanning the media library. Add this and I'll send you guys a bottle.