Mikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Someone told me once it could help to guard against data corruption (plus I
>> had an extra HD lying around). Is this bunk?
>
> There is an argument that keeping your operating systems on one drive, your
> application on another drive, and your data files on yet another greatly
> diminish the chances of inadvertently corrupting your data.
Hm. So it's true after all.
I have three HD's; one is just for the OS (like I mentioned, everything else
is aliased to the Applications drive), one for Applications and
Data/Documents/System backup/etc.
A third drive is my "play" drive, and I've run some flavour of Linux off of
it for about a year, toying with the different distro's (SuSE is my
favourite except for KDE, I've tried LinuxPPC and YellowDog). Right now the
OS X PB is on there (but I rarely use it).
> I generally put the OS and applications on one and my data on another. But
> that's because:
I could turn the third drive into a "data" drive, I suppose. I don't have
enough data to justify it, though.
> 1) It makes my incremental backup strategy easier to manage
Yes, much.
> 2) It allows me to encrypt my data volume
I never bother. Do you use the Apple-provided encryption, or something else
like PGP?
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