[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 09:33  AM, Peter van der Linden 
wrote:

>
> On Dec 3, 2003, at 5:48 AM, Mark M. Florida wrote:
>
>> For any kind of media work which involves CONSTANT writing, deleting, 
>> rewriting to a disk, a dedicated disk or partition will make 
>> everything run SOOO much smoother as time goes on
>
> What does "smoother" mean in this context?

Smoother means that when your NLE software issues a set of commands 
demanding
continuing the sequence
accessing sound files
and accessing video files
It will go smoother if it can have at least two different disks to get 
them from.
Absolutely. Partitioning is not enough. Your drive only has so many 
heads.
  A seperate disk for video at least is a must.
Jim



>   What is the advantage that you think a separate partition will bring 
> today when there is much disk activity?  I grant you might be thinking 
> of disadvantages of MacOS HFS, rather than the HFS+ (aka "extended 
> format") that is used since MacOS 8.1.   The activity is all on the 
> same physical platter remember, no matter how many partitions you > have.
>
> RAID-1 has no negative impact on performance (writes are in parallel 
> to separate drives), and makes your data highly available.
>
> The advantage of a journalled file system is fast recovery in the 
> event of a crash.
>
> > About organization -- what's wrong with that?  If it helps you work 
> better, then do it.
>
> Sure, but don't think you're getting something extra out of it.  
> Multiple partitions add nothing to the system originally described,
>
>     Peter
>