[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 11:20p -0500 2003.05.21, Steven Rogers wrote:
>Does the separate partition (rather than separate physical drive) 
>actually yield some benefit?

It's often useful (if not necessary) to wipe scratch drives at the 
start of a video or audio project. A partition can be easily wiped 
but if the data is not on a separate partition then just deleting the 
files doesn't do any good. Sometimes the aim is to ensure 
unfragmented space for long continuous writes...

I've also had the habit of pointing browser caches and Photoshop 
"overspill" at scratch space. The manner and frequency of these apps 
writes was often contributory to odd corruption episodes whenever 
glitches happened.
-- 
'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]