[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 11:28  AM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> 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 for the wrong or outdated reasons.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).

My experience was that partitioning also divided the number f heads on 
the drive and caused dropped frames. Second drive.

>   People who do heavy Photoshop work

Unlike video that has to sustain disk reads for a ahlf hour or more in 
my case) photoshop can benefit from partitions better.

> (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.
>