• Avid Media Composer

  Does anyone partition drives anymore?

  Posted by James Fletcher on April 11, 2007 at 5:22 am

  I’ve been editing on Avid systems since ’94, and I’ve always partitioned my media drives. Lately, I’ve heard this is no longer necessary and can even slightly slow down your drive response time. Is this true?

  I’ve recently set up a home editing system with Avid Express Pro 5.6.4 on a 2.7 ghz Dual Processor Power PC Mac running OS 10.4.9. I just got a 1tb G-raid 2 firewire drive and I’m wondering if I should partition it.

  James Fletcher replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

• 

  Jon Zanone

  April 11, 2007 at 11:34 am

  Avid recommends partitioning drives:

  https://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?contentID=8082

  Jon

  “The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
• 

  David Braswell

  April 11, 2007 at 1:19 pm

  I’ve half a TB partitioned into 3 volumes. No slowdowns, fewer crashes.
• 

  James Fletcher

  April 11, 2007 at 6:10 pm

  Thanks for the response, and thanks for the link. It makes a lot of sense.

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up