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To Partition Or Not To Partition?, OSX 10.6 - partition?

ArchivalAudio View Member Profile	Tue 27 Jul 2010, 06:39 Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 29-Oct 03 From: Corvallis - US Member No.: 27,749	haven't posted in a while, and finally I am getting an upgrade from my iBook G4 (10.4.11) I think I'll be getting an iMac I have always partitioned my drives about 2/3 for the OS and apps and 1/3 for files - or writing files to. I like the benefit of having "two" drive mainly because it takes much lsee time to defrag a sammler drive however I have heard that snow leopard does not benefit from partitioning or from defragging. (could that be true?) I have always been fond of my "tool" programs to keep my system up and running at its best. Like TechTool , Drive Genius, Onyx, and of course applejack. any thoughts on if there is a reason to partition or not? thanx --Ian aka ArchivalAudio -------------------- ~ Archival Audio ~ Archiving Worthy Music since 1986 & digitally since 1995 Field and location recording iBook G4 1.2Ghz/ 1.2GB - MOTU UltraLite & Audiodesk \| Fostex FR2-LE (currently stock) Milab VM-44 Links \| RODE NT5's \| AT853a's C/SC \| Naiant MSH-2's \| other assorted mics Mackie 1402Vlz \| Fostex D-5 DAT =============================== For sale make me an offer : PM me Denecke AD-20 \| Presonus FireBox OLD School: Mac Clone (PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro) G3 enabled 450mhz/512MB EgoSys waveterminal 2496 - Cubase VST 5.0 Peak,Jam etc! ;) Fostex D-5 DAT

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lepetitmartien View Member Profile	Fri 30 Jul 2010, 00:09 Post #2
Moderator In Chief (MIC) Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758	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! -------------------- Our Classifeds • Nos petites annonces • Terms Of Service / Conditions d'Utilisation • Forum Rules / Règles des Forums • MacMusic.Org & SETI@Home BOING BUMM TSCHAK PENG! Are you musician enough to write in our Wiki? BOING BUMM TSCHAK ZZZZZZZZZZZOING! Êtes-vous assez musicien pour écrire dans le Wiki?

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ArchivalAudio To Partition Or Not To Partition? Tue 27 Jul 2010, 06:39

lepetitmartien You can do that, but if you want to work with audi... Wed 28 Jul 2010, 14:43

houstonmusic I'll weigh in on this too. i used to use part... Wed 28 Jul 2010, 16:03

ArchivalAudio QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Wed 28 Jul 2010, 06... Thu 29 Jul 2010, 07:00

melenko Partitions won't help you to get better perfo... Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:04

lepetitmartien My pleasure archival Thanks are the best thing he... Fri 30 Jul 2010, 00:09

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