{"id":3988,"date":"2010-02-09T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:38:43","slug":"four-reasons-to-partition-your-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/3988-four-reasons-to-partition-your-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Reasons to Partition Your Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a member of the Sales team here at OWC, I get exposed to a lot of customer inquiries on how to properly set up their hard drives. Hard drive performance is a critical component of overall system performance, especially when you have a specific \"\"<\/a>task that needs to be accomplished.<\/p>\n

You can use Disk Utility<\/strong> (found in \/Applications\/Utilities) to repartition a drive, although doing so in versions of OS X prior to 10.5 requires erasing the entire drive in the process. However, with a third-party application such Prosoft Engineering\u2019s Drive Genius 2<\/a>, you can repartition in older systems without having to erase your drive\u00a0 first.<\/p>\n

A single drive can be split up into volumes, sort of like having separate folders. Rather than one large drive, you see four smaller ones. So why would you want to do this? Here are four great reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Run more than one Mac OS<\/strong> – If you ran more than one operating system, perhaps you have certain applications that will only run on an earlier version of Mac OS X. You can then have one partition for each version of OS X. To switch and boot up among them, just open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.<\/li>\n
  2. Run Windows<\/strong> – If you need to run a version of \u00a0Windows and applications at full speed, you can use Boot Camp on your Mac and boot into Windows that way. In order to use Boot Camp, a second partition is required, and is accomplished by using Boot Camp Assistant. You have to keep in mind that no additional partitions can be used when you use Boot Camp. Interestingly, this partition can also be used to boot Windows using using Parallels<\/a> or\u00a0Fusion<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Boot up in a Repair Disk mode<\/strong> – If you need to repair disk issues on your main partition, you can create a small bootable partition to run applications such as Drive Genius 2, Disk Warrior<\/a>, Disk Utility or similar repair utility. This is a great way to be prepared for issues and address them in a timely fashion.<\/li>\n
  4. Share an iPhoto library<\/strong> – Setting up a single iPhoto library on one computer can also be useful. You would do this by placing it on the non-startup volume (the second partition) then linking each account to it in iPhoto<\/a>. This allows all accounts on the that system to share the same library.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Being a member of the Sales team here at OWC, I get exposed to a lot of customer inquiries on how to properly set up their hard drives. Hard drive performance is a critical component of overall system performance, especially when you have a specific task that needs to be accomplished. You can use Disk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\nFour Reasons to Partition Your Drive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A single drive can be split up into volumes, sort of like having separate folders. 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