On Jan 4, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Dan wrote:
>
> At 4:15 PM -0500 1/4/2009, Charles Davis wrote:
>> On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote:
>>> At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/2009, D Stubbs wrote:
>>>> 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune)
>>
>>> Two volumes - one big enough to hold your entire system
>>> volume and the other for everything else. If you chop it up
>>> further,
>>> you'll regret it down the road.
>
>> Hate to disagree with Dan ---
>
> No you don't. :)
>
>> But as I sit here with 26 (yes Twenty six) partitions on the right
>> hand side of my screen, there are times when the amount of 'real
>> estate' is a bother, but on the other hand, I can see that I have 12
>> bootable systems (OS9 + X and 10/ X clones of varying ages), 7 that
>> are empty, and 7 more with varying contents.
>
> /me starts to look at Chuck sideways, but falls unconscious
>
> Ok. One volume for each system clone/backup plus one for everything
> else. But 26 volumes on one drive would drive me a but nutzo.
> (Bruce, bite your tongue.)
Well, it isn't one drive.
Internal Buss #1 Drive #1 149GB 1 partition
Drive #2 149GB 1 partition
Buss #2 DVD/CD
Buss #3 Drive #1 465GB 8 Partitions
Drive #2 232GB 4 Partitions
External NewerTech Mini Stack 465GB 8 Partitions
External OWC Neptune 232GB 4 Partitions
Chuck D.
>
> - Dan.
> --
> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth
>
> >
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