On Sun, Oct 26, 2003, it is attributed to Scott at HobbyLink Japan to
have said:
>>BTW. What percentage of the hard drive should be left free for disk
>>operations with OS X?
>
>Joe Kissel, in his fine Tid-Bits "Taking Control" mini-book about
>updating to Panther (available at www.tidbits.com/takecontrol for $5)
>says that you should leave at least twice the size of your physical RAM
>available as open hard disk space for your day-to-day operations.
I don't recall where, but it seems to me that 20% of raw drive space (per
partition) is a number I read somewhere. Mind, with the (comparatively)
immense drives we have these days, that seems like a lot.
Speaking of drives: I remember the HD on a Performa 5200 crapping out
under warranty. Apple Canada was short of stock, and replaced the
existing 500 MB w/ an 800MB drive. I tell ya, it felt like I'd won the
lottery!! Times have changed, eh? Now I read where the new Adobe Suite
(CS) needs over a gig just to install the apps.. that doesn't even START
to talk about scratchdisk needs.
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later,
JS
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God's business.
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