At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/09, D Stubbs posted: I just got in a new 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune), I haven't had a large HD before so I first tried searching this forum's archives - but didn't quite find an answer to my question. I see 3 possible ways to go before I put this to use. My first unededucated thought is to make five folders, one for backup, one music, one pics etc. However, because of its size, is there any good reason to make say 5 partitions of 100G each? Or perhaps one 30G with Apps and System clones CCC'd as a boot backup, and one 470 for everything else?
Were I you, and planned on using the drive only for backup - including emergency booting - I would make two partitions, one for a cloned OS and the other for your files. (After formatting, you won't have 500GB by the way.) There's mostly likely no need to make separate partitions for each type of file. Having 5 partitions mounted on your desktop will get old. If you plan on having it mounted most times for access to your music files, you may want to have the larger partition be the first partition??? Faster seek times??? More knowledgeable folk will have to answer that. Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
