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is partitioning drives still necessary
HI,
I’m working on a Mac Dual 2 ghz Power G5, 4G ram, OS 10.5.5
My main work on this beast is editing (FCP)My old 250G start up hard drive just went down so i replaced with a WD Cavier 640G drive. I come from the old schooling where it was told that we should have our media on separate drives then our apps–as the 640 is so huge and ample for all my apps and then some, my question here is……..should i partition the drive, so that i can use part of the drive separately for media? I’ve heard lately vague mumors that partitioning is a thing of the past, is it? What are the pros and cons to partitioning?
Since i have this new fresh drive—-if i’m going to partition now is the time.
thank you for your answers!
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6 Replies
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Hi – Don’t partition the drive. Even if its partitioned, your media is on the same physical drive. That’s what matters.
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What Bill says. You should get a second, totally second drive for your scratch disk and media storage.
Jeremy
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[renee bergan] “I’ve heard lately vague mumors that partitioning is a thing of the past, is it? “
Partitioning of a drive, any drive, is specific to certain types of file operations, operating system requirements, and a narrow niche of werdr applications.
Partitioning has not been a recommended setup for FCP since, umm, since always. Where you been?
bogiesan
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Never have partitioned for fcp purposes or any purpose for that matter…. never saw the need. hence why i asked if there was a purpose anymore….
obviously tho i’m an idiot and living on another planet given your smart ass response. it wouldn’t have been a true forum thread without at least one snyde remark from someone.
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[renee bergan] “snyde”
it’s “snide”.
that’s two. Ding!
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HI renee,
basically, dont ever use use the startup drive to capture media. Buy yourself a smaller 100-250Gb drive for your startup and save the 640gb for your media. Should all work fine.Hope that helps
Nick
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