I agree.
External drives are very inexpensive now.
If you are running OS X you can even boot from an external drive.
You can buy a six-port Firewire hub for about $50 or daisy-chain over
60 drives.
When I install servers for small businesses I put the OS on an external
drive. That way, if the hosting server fails, the user can boot any of
the other computers from that external drive - and it automatically
becomes the server - with very limited client reconfiguration.
Paul Looney
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Sent: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: Partition benefits . . .
Sorry to be contrary, but I don't think another partition is that
good of a safety net. A second real drive is more reliable in my
experience.
>
>Still there are a couple of situations where the extra OS on separate
>partition comes in handy, even for OSX;
>
>1) defraging your startup disc
>2) extremely rare on OSX but if you ever install something and
suddenly run
>into problems, being able to restart off the other partition and do
your
>days work and worry about troubleshooting the normal partition at a
more
>convenient time can be a real "phew" moment.
>3) being able to do work whilst running maintenance - you can't do
anything
>whilst AppleJack does it's thing.
--
stephen barncard
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