This is a constant battle for me. I have to delete every episode I create as soon as I upload it to make space to edit the next one. I use G-drive and a plug in hard drive to keep my raw audio files but it seems antiquated and is a constant struggle. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this something all podcasters face.
Does anyone else record and edit on their laptap and have spave issues
External SSDs are cheap.
Just looked them up, I'm gonna order one đ
Use a Highspeed external, upgrade your storage, or get a desktop with more storage.
Get a 2TB external SSD drive. If you're laptop is USB 3.0 compatible you should have no performance problems reading, writing, or editing files directly to the drive.
Just looked this up on Amazon, I'm gonna get one!
I use a 2TB SSD drive with my ATEM to record, edit on my laptop and/or desktop then save old recordings on a 8TB drive.
Well it's something everyone faces lol - podcasters, and video creators for sure. A lot of people (including myself) do external drives, they fill up, you retire them to a closet, and you buy a new one. But it's not the best way, and it's certainly not the safest way to ensure you get to keep your stuff. I've run storage servers in the past, stuffed with drives, I've done the external drive route -- and it really comes down to expandability, redundancy, and how the heck you're going to continue to grow. This is why I'm gunning for a NAS of some kind in the future. Because they're super fast, they hold multiple drives, and if you pick up something like a Synology they have their version of software RAID which allows drive pooling & upgradability on the pool which is a MASSIVE plus in my eyes. As the drives fill, you get a new, larger one, replace one, and it goes back into the pool. Depending on the manufacturer you go with they also frequently work with cloud backup (I believe business crashplan is unlimited, relatively priced, and works this way). Anywho, hope this helps, it talks about the different ways to approach the problem.
What a great response, and that link was money! It was reassuring to lean the 321 rule and realise I have been doing it by accident anyway. I think the NAS option is what I will go for. I always feel like my external HDs will crash and I will lose everything, but a NAS system will fend against this. Thanks for the info, I think it will take me a minute to get there, but I know what I am aiming for now.
I appreciate you appreciating this :-) Awesome! Never delete stuff again haha!
I think your keyboard isnât working either â perhaps time for a new laptop? ;)
Joking aside, unless your podcast is 3hrs long and has 20 participants you probably shouldnât be running out of disk. That means either youâre recording in a likely unnecessarily high q format or you have very little disk space.
If you have a laptop with not-upgradable storage (macs, some other machines) then get yourself an external ssd and live the accessory life, unless youâve money to burn and a desire for a spare laptop :)
If you have a laptop with upgradable storage (a lot of, but by no means all windows machines) the look into a storage upgrade. Certainly cheaper than a whole new laptop!
I should wear my glasses when I'm posting stuff, I didn't even realise I has misspelled anything till you just mentioned it đ The podcast is highly edited with interviews and misic. I was heavily inspired by 'S Town' and 'This American Life', and I think all that raw audio is taking up my spave. I use Adobe Audition to edit, maybe it's on a setting that is backing up the raw files unnecessary? I dunno? I might look into it today and see what I can find.
How big are you recording files. I record in high quality and the biggest Audition file I have is 20GB but only because it was 4 hours 5 mics and I duplicated each track a few times.
You either have absolutely small storage capacity or some huge! Files.
The good thing is storage is pretty cheap nowadays. But yourself a 4-8TB and never delete anything again.
I still have all my files since I started my podcast 4 years ago.
sounds simple, your computer is running out of space. Use an external hard drive or a new computer.