Emergency Technical Question! Does the Original Poster's Sawtooth Mac have a Hard Drive Size or Partition Size limitation of some sort that he/she needs to consider?
ALSO! A reccomendation to the Original Poster... Scrounge up some RAM if you're running OSX with 128mb. I was "satisfied" with 256mb in my G4 Mini using 10.4 until I picked up a 1gig simm. It made using and living with my Mac a whole ton more fun. Don't hesitate to upgrade. It's worth it. On Jan 4, 7:56 pm, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, D Stubbs wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, KP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I use a 300GB backup HD in an enclosure. I recently lost my > > everything on it. If I would have had seperate partitions on it, and > > put my music files in one partition, media files in another, one for > > the cloned OS... etc, than I would only have lost one partition and > > not lost everything. I would make seperate partitions for different > > catigories and back them up there. Sorting into seperate partitions > > as I have mentioned makes finding things much easier also. > > > So I see it is not a clear-cut decision! > > I so appreciate the intelligent fair discussions on this forum. > > In regards to KP's comment about losing material, how is a 500G HD > > actually constructed? > > is it one super-concentrated disc?, a stack of discs? > > It's a 'Stack of Disks' > > > > > If it is a stack of discs (platter)- and if something failed does > > it stand to reason that it would fail one disc at at time? > > BUT ---- Data is written on all of the #1 cylinders (tracks on the > disk), then writing moves to 'Cylinder #2', then Cylinder #3,......... > > > - so one's best security is to perhaps partition exactly to each disc? > > So Partitions do NOT correspond to 'disks' (platter) > > > > > I didn't exactly buy the most expensive unit out there - so some > > attention to possible HD falure would seem prudent. > > Not a bad thought. Sometimes 'Paranoia' does have its usefulness. > This is why you keep hearing "MAKE BACKUPS". > > > > > (In case it matters - at the bottom of the following URL are specs > > on my particular new HD > >http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/NPFW7500GB/) > > thanks, Del > > HTH Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
