Stephen,
Based on my 22 years experience with Macs, some bad, mostly very
good, I agree with you that the preference for external (or now a
days, perhaps, - interior) "real" drives is by far the better choice;
particularly with their very low cost, remembering $800 one and two
MB hard drives in the 80s. Though much slower, at this time, I look
forward to the day when we have "huge" DVD-type memory mechanisms
where there are no whirling disks that can "crash" and "burn" with
our data. Even now, it would be smart of us to burn more CDs with our
data instead of trusting these behemoth drives to continue to
function reliably. Tape was good, but not very convenient, being
totally linear.
Joe Wilkins
On May 7, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
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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