[G4] Best use for the 2nd HD

[jonseward at mindspring.com]

Better do it now!  I filled up my primary drive to within 5% of capacity
and applications stopped 
working properly, then files became corrupted and important data was
irretrievably lost.  A 
continuing reminder that backups should be early and often.  Too much fun.

Some people like to run applications from secondary drives.  Scratch disks
and cache locations on 
separate discs can also help to maximize speeds of various applications and
processes, particularly 
Photoshop, and other memory hogs.  Backup is also convenient with separate
discs.  Partitioning 
the disc can permit it to do all of the above, though the partition size
should be ample enough for 
the intended use(s) or there may be little benefit.

HTH,

jon



Original Message:
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From: Raymond E. Hardy rhardy27 at comcast.net
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:47:36 -0400
To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
Subject: Re: [G4] Best use for the 2nd HD


Dan,
    I should have been a bit clearer. I was down to about 3 gigs of free
space on the Quicksilver's 60 gig drive and couldn't add an application I've
been wanting to try out. I'm hoping to do the right things to free up the
first drive. 
Best.
Ray

> Ray,
> 
> You could you the drive as a backup of your primary 120-gig drive. That
> is what I do with my extra 120 gig drive. I have the computer set to
> back-up everything to that drive once a week..
> 
> Dan Brieck Jr.
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Raymond E. Hardy wrote:
> 
>> My newly installed internal 2nd HD (Seagate-120 gig), installed with
>> the
>> helpful list recommendations, is working well. Thanks!!
>> 
>> First thoughts about the best use for this new drive suggest that I
>> should
>> try to put all my "document" files on this "slave" drive -i.e., all my
>> audio, picture, Word, QuickBooks, etc. with the OS and Application
>> files
>> remaining on the 1st drive.
>> 
>> Once again I've got a lot of "newby" questions and will value any
>> suggestions.
>> Would you copy the documents to the 2nd drive then simply "select" the
>> originals on 1st drive and delete them? - hoping to improve
>> performance.
>> If this is the best idea, can the Applications be set up to seamlessly
>> access and save files to the 2nd drive?
>> Should I usually start the desired application by selecting a document
>> from
>> the 2nd drive?
>> Best regards,
>> Ray

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