drive / partition strategy |
October, 31, 2003 8:16 AM |
brinster |
PTP / g4 700 / ati 7000 / acard I have two (2) seagate 18gb Cheetahs (10,000) now running on the fast scsi bus. I also have a WD 80gb Caviar (7200) on the acard. Once I actually switch to this machine, I will also have available a 5400 2gb scsi (the oem from a PTPro), an 10gb IBM Deskstar (7200) and a 120gb Maxtor (7200). How would you guys recommend I lay out the drives? Obvioulsy, OS's go on the fastest drives. Apps will run faster on faster drives, too, right? I might have enough room for X and my performance-intensive programs on the two Cheetahs. If this is the way to go, should I partition the drive with the OS? What are the pros & cons of doing so? If partitioning is the way to go, how big for X? X uses disk space for memory, right? I hope to not need 9.x other than occasionally, so maybe that goes on a slower drive? A stripped down version of 9.x to just run in Classic and allow me to get to XPF should be all I would need. Then again, if it IS small, maybe it makes sense to put it on the faster drives. Documents go on one of the larger, slower drives, right? Anything else I should consider? |
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RE: drive / partition strategy |
October, 31, 2003 1:50 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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usually what I do is make the fastest SCSI drive I have the boot drive. I also put my User data on a seperate Fast SCSI drive. I keep a small (1G) 9.1 partition with Diskwarrior on it just in case. Then I use my Acard and do a Carbon copy clone of my bootable system, and use iMsafe to duplicate my user data to the IDE bus also. This gives me complete redundancy in both my system and user data... |
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