Using Mimiq - But How Do You Really Know…?
Here’s something Avid Media Composer teams often ask me:
“OK… Mimiq says I’m supposed to have Bin Locking on these volumes, but how do I really know?”
![](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5498/2024/mimiqadded-workspaces.png)
The key is Media Composer recognizing a volume as an Avid NEXIS Drive
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But will Media Composer just… tell you which volumes are Avid NEXIS Drives
? Yes indeed:
- macOS -
Avid Media Composer > About Avid Media Composer > Hardware > Avid NEXIS Drives
- Windows -
Help > About Avid Media Composer > Hardware > Avid NEXIS Drives
![](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5498/2024/avid-nexis-drives.png)
Don’t believe the UI? You can double down on your skepticism using Media Composer’s Console with this command:
DumpVolumes
The result is a list of volumes Media Composer can see, plus this handy bit of info: the filesystem of each volume.
When you see:
- macOS -
fileSys: FILE_SYS_AVIDFS
- Windows -
fileSys: FILE_SYS_AVIDFOS
![](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5498/2024/dumpvolumes.png)
That’s how you really know – you have Bin Locking (and now refreshing locked Bins!), thanks to Mimiq. 👌🏽