[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Paul Williams]

Personally, i like partitions so that one partition, maybe receiving 
heavy usage during multimedia editing, doesn't fragment my apps and 
OS as an example.

>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?   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
>
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