Topic: JB3 recording with a partially-full drive

[drowned_in_milk]

I remember reading something at one poiint that said the JB3 recorded better if the drive was empty... I was hoping to be able to put mp3's to listen to on it, then be able to tape a show with maybe 5 gigs already taken up.  Anynone know if it matters or not?

[caymanreview]

i think that would be ok, i think the people who had problems had alot mor ethan that on there when it happened

[keepongoin]

you should be fine.  i usually leave the recordings on the jb3 until after at least 3 or 4 people have flac copies of it and i have one for my archive.  i have gone out and taped 3 shows in the last week with 8 gigs on the hdd to start.  i think you run into trouble if you delete stuff and you are almost full.  this is because the available space is fragmented on the drive.

[teamakg]

i'm lazy and leave my jb3 full of shows.  just taped a show last week and after taping it i had less than 1 gig of free space left.  maybe i'm just lucky but not a single click/pop/diginoise at all from the jb3.  knock on wood.

[ChrisV]

i'm lazy and leave my jb3 full of shows.  just taped a show last week and after taping it i had less than 1 gig of free space left.  maybe i'm just lucky but not a single click/pop/diginoise at all from the jb3.  knock on wood.

Ditto, I am the same way right now, removing shows to make space to tape new ones....haven't had any problems at all yet.  But I really want to do a mass transfer of everything and do a fresh format to be safe sometime soon when I can get to it ;p

[steve-o]

I've not read every 'bleeping' post re: JB3 disc space/fragmentation/formating/etc as it relates to digi noise in the transfered wave, but I got to tell you... if that's what's caused some of my latter shows to be very d-noisy I'd recommend not deleting files and re-recording.  I'm sure my drives are very fragmented and I needed to know of this little detail before I went and did what I done... I've been bad    Seems like way to do it would be, at least: delete and cleanup before you make more recordings.  I could be wrong... (I've been a little fuzzy on the reformat business.  Does that require a reinstall of the firmware?)

Fore warned is fore armed

I would assume that with any reformat, PC or not (JB3), you would need to reinstall the software/firmware.  Per the digi noise on a full JB3, I would also assume that you really need to reformat that piece.