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Hardware Question
It is always a blast to log on and see what everyone has to say, thanks for all the great contributions on past questions and prethanks for any replies on this one.
I have a Power Mac G5 dual 2.0 with 2.5 G of Ram and 256 MB of video ram. I am adding a second HD that has 300 G and a 16MB buffer as opposed to the 160 G and 8MB buffer in the stock HD. I do a lot of video editing with Final Cut Studio and I want to maximize the performance of the machine. What would be the best way to set this system up?
Should I run the OS off the new drive and have all of my software installed on it as well?
Should I leave everything installed on the first drive and simply dump all of my content on the new drive?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
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5 Replies
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Chris,
Use your new drive as a media drive. A 160gb system drive is more than enough for most people. When you initialize and erase your new drive using the disk utility just make certain to turn off journaling, and thats it, you’re good to go.
DRW
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My curiosity to learn drives my next question. Why do I want to turn off journaling?
Chris
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That’s easy… Because I told you to turn it off.
You don’t need journaling on a media drive, its primarily for speeding up reads on system drives.
DRW
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Here’s an Apple doc about journaling if you want to read further:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107249
Here’s the relevant part for video users:
“If your server contains high-bandwidth usage data files, such as large video, graphics, or audio files, you may want to weigh the benefits of using journaling against the performance needed to access your data.”
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Thanks for the direction to the article I will check it out. I appreciate both of you weighing in on the question.
Chris
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