[MacDV] External hard drive for video work

[Lanny Cotler]

Rich,

What rule of thumb do you use for estimating the size of 
"project-sized" partition when allocating partitions?

L

>On Mon, December 4, 2006 11:36 am, Stephen Orbach wrote:
>[snip]
>  Finally, I havew taken to defragging my external HDs
>>  from time to time, even tho' I have been told this probably isn't needed.
>
>Yeah. Much better is to partition the drive into project-sized units. This
>way the disc-space allocated is all contiguous and then, when you are done
>with the project, simply erase the partition. Much faster than any
>defragger, much less prone to error and you are assured you have all the
>space back as contiguous room again.
>
>[unix device drivers are way different than those used on the dos/apple
>boxes that gave rise to this need for defragging HDs to improve
>performance]
>
>Rich
>