[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Mark M. Florida]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

> Just seems IMO that some people put too much emphasis on partitioning 
> for the wrong or outdated reasons. If you (or anyone) understands both 
> the advantages and disadvantages involved, do what's right for you. 
> I'll admit there are times partitioning makes sense.

Exactly!  And video editing is definitely one of those things that 
benefits from having a separate media partition (or partitions).  
People who do heavy Photoshop work (huge files that hit the scratch 
disk a lot) should also think about creating an entirely separate 
"scratch" partition to use exclusively as a Photoshop scratch disk - 
between 4 and 8 GB, depending on how big your files are -- it REALLY 
speeds up scratch disk usage to not have to compete with the gazillions 
of system and application files that reside on the startup disk.  If 
you do video *and* Photoshop work, Photoshop can use the media 
partition(s) as scratch disk -- a few hundred large files (video clips) 
is much less clutter to deal with than a few hundred THOUSAND tiny 
system and app files...

- Mark F.