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Partitioning Advice
I have Dual 2.566 GHz Mac Pro. I bought a 750g internal SATA drive. Should I partition it?
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4 Replies
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[Andy Lancaster] “Should I partition it?”
Why not just add additional drives?
Why would you want to partition it? I don’t see any potential advantages to it.Happy Editing To You!!
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You might want to partition it if you want to put an emergency boot on there, or a place to play/test different systems (~20GB). The only other reason I can think of is for backups. If you are running 10.5 you could setup a time machine backup that is constrained to a certain size. If the drive is just for additional storage I’d leave it as one partition.
Aloha,
-Chris
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[Chris Mackenzie] “The only other reason I can think of is for backups”
Its not a real back up if it just on another partition on the same hard drive. If the drive dies then your originals and your backup is gone. You want backups on a completely separate drive.
Happy Editing To You!!
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Yes, very good point.
I meant for a backup of the other drive, not what is on the new drive.
Aloha,
-Chris
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