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Best FCP Setup
I’m forced to do a clean install due to many KP’s during and after updating to Snow Leopard and FCP 7 so I’m considering best set up for my edit system. Do I keep it as a 1 TB system drive or should I partition? Can I partition into 2 500GB and make the second 500GB a time machine? Right now if I want to run Disk Warrior I need to use my Laptop while starting up Mac Pro desktop system in target.
Any thoughts on best set up, see my system listed below.
Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors. -
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Is it a Mac Pro tower?
Why don’t you just buy a new 1TB drive and do a clean install of the OS and FCP on that? Then install your old 1TB drive in drive bay #2, transfer over the files you need from your old drive to your new system drive, and then use the drive in bay #2 as your back up drive.
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I’d use an external drive for a backup. If the drive fails you lose your startup and your backup too. Just doesn’t make sense don’t think for a backup to be the same physical drive.
Just perform a clean install and double check any plugins and drivers to be compatible with the versions of software you’re running. KP’s are usually hardware related, so after you’re clean install if you still have problems, I’d be looking at that. RAM chips first…
Jerry
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8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Michael,
You wouldn’t be forced to do a clean install because of all the KP’s if you would have searched the forum before you upgraded. This topic has been covered ad nauseam. I searched your subject line and got over 600 results.
Why do you want to make your system drive, your Time Machine thru a partition? What are you going to use to restore your data if that drive dies?
Drive space is super cheap, go buy a fresh HD and install SL, and FCS on it and that should work fine. OWC has 1TB 7200 OEM drives for around a hundred bucks. For a Time Machine try something like an outboard WD USB bookshelf drive, these are cheap too. You don’t need FW speed for TM.
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[Michael Harrington] “Can I partition into 2 500GB and make the second 500GB a time machine?”
Doing that would be pointless. Backing up to the same physical drive adds absolutely no safety what so ever. If the one drive fails you loose your system and your back up.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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