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 To Partition Or Not To Partition?, OSX 10.6 - partition? |
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 Wed 28 Jul 2010, 14:43
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You can do that, but if you want to work with audio you'll get (way) better performance by putting all audio files on external drives.
On Snow Loepard, the system since I don"t remember the version defrag itself the drive of all files under 20 MB. Save if you fill the system drive of work heavily with files on this one you won't see much change. And as audio files (or projects) should be on different drive than the system disk anyway…
My tools of choice are OnyX, Applejack, Apple disk utility, the Terminal (for authorizations), and sometimes DiskWarrior for broken directories. OS X is rock solid IMHO. The main issue I encounter when I do maintenance/help friends are usually dead drives (far too common) or computers never switch off, with loads of old software in and "it's blocked, I switch off from the plug" attitude.
Have at least one external hard drive to work, and a decent archival policy (for system/apps/user account and files, it'll need another drive). You can use Time Machine, or a back up utility, or clone. I clone myself.
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Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:04
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Partitions won't help you to get better performances.
On the contrary, the same HD has to deal with the OS/Apps/audio.
At the same time...
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Thu 29 Jul 2010, 07:00
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QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Wed 28 Jul 2010, 06:43)  You can do that, but if you want to work with audio you'll get (way) better performance by putting all audio files on external drives.
On Snow Loepard, the system since I don"t remember the version defrag itself the drive of all files under 20 MB. Save if you fill the system drive of work heavily with files on this one you won't see much change. And as audio files (or projects) should be on different drive than the system disk anyway…
My tools of choice are OnyX, Applejack, Apple disk utility, the Terminal (for authorizations), and sometimes DiskWarrior for broken directories. OS X is rock solid IMHO. The main issue I encounter when I do maintenance/help friends are usually dead drives (far too common) or computers never switch off, with loads of old software in and "it's blocked, I switch off from the plug" attitude.
Have at least one external hard drive to work, and a decent archival policy (for system/apps/user account and files, it'll need another drive). You can use Time Machine, or a back up utility, or clone. I clone myself. thank you for the replies and yes I use those tools too! over the years I have learned a lot here (specifically from you) than you so very much --Ian aka ArchivalAudio
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Fri 30 Jul 2010, 00:09
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My pleasure archival  Thanks are the best thing here The only interest into partitioning for most users is to save some real estate on the oversized drives we have (note, you won't save that much estate now). But it won't do on the performance side if you're recording on the same drive, even on a different partition, save marginally. The most important thing after this is back up!
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