-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No, seek times are no issue here.
2009/1/4 Steve R : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAklg9wQACgkQZGCrekxoMEV5WgCgwwQiKJrTXMUKzgDRqRU/OaUT WMoAn0ARS8cRI5nynBxAeLtgx/EZkb5K =8U0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > 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 > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
