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ArchivalAudio
post Wed 23 Mar 2005, 03:58
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hey some advice would help a great deal....
I still am currently an OS9 user...D'OH!......

I *really* am finally getting a G4 ibook, I think a minium one with only a 30 gig harddrive... my question is as follows...
(I think I asked a simialr one before , but as thies is getting closer I am wondering more n more!)

I have hear the minimum size drive (partition) that OSX can comfortably run on is 10 GB is this true? and if so if I partition the (30 GB) drive roughly in half say 15 GB and almost 15 GB will OSX run smoothly and can I still fit some Apps on there so I can use the other Partition for writing files to? mostly this machine would be used for recording Audio. I plan in the near future on getting a External Firewire drive to also use to dump files ... and of course getting a 1 GB RAM chip in it to max the RAM to 1.25 GB.

any other and new info or suggestions would be super cool!

thanx
bunches!

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dixiechicken
post Sun 27 Mar 2005, 16:46
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Archival Audio - You're welcome!

One thing to keep in mind:
I dont of course know - how much of audio recording you plan to do.
Lets say split your harddrive in 2 roughly equal halves of 15 Gb each.

It will be pretty easy to fill up one of those 15 Gb parttions with
project files and recorded audio.
Depending of course on the amount of audio recording you actually do.

15 Gb is not really huge amount of space these days.

Eventually you'll probably need to buy an external drive anyway -
to copy your work to and clear up space on the internal partition -
to make room for new projects.

Cheers: Dixiechicken


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