[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 04:43 PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 1:54p -0500 2003.05.20, Steven Rogers wrote:
>> A "scratch" partition is a complete waste of time.
>
> Except for those who are doing audio or video or big Photoshop jobs. 
> For them separate scratch partitions can have tremendous value, 
> particularly on laptops where specific additional drives are not 
> guaranteed to be in place at all times. Of course, that an individual 
> is working in one of these areas does not disqualify them from being a 
> Macintosh OS X "newbie" so the situation arises.

Does the separate partition (rather than separate physical drive) 
actually yield some benefit?

SR