The Logic Off Topic list

Thoughts from the mind of DbbBrook@..., 02-04-2002:

>Why don't you divide your hard drive up into two sections?  One for your
>music and one for your other applications.  I got a mate to do mine and not
>one problem in two years. TOUCH WOOD Quickly.  HE HE

Don't know what the original question was, but in response to the above:

Partitioning your hard drive might be a good idea.  Put all 
applications (including Logic) on one partition, and dedicate a 2nd 
partition to your Logic songs (including all audio).  The advantage 
is that small partitions are easier to defragment-- something you 
want to do regularly with audio disks.  Besides, if you have just one 
partition -- i.e. including your system and all data -- you cannot 
even defragment it, since the disk will always contain open (system) 
files.  That by itself is a big argument in favour of partitions.

However, don't expect much performance gain from such a scheme (if 
any at all).  Since System, Logic and audio files still reside on the 
same physical disk, the disk read-head has to do some acrobatics to 
read all required data.  Therefore the best solution, performance 
wise, is to have a seperate dedicated audio disk (talking physical 
disks here).

I partitioned my internal 10 GB HD in 3 sections: Mac OS, 
Applications and Data (text, graphics, etc).  Audio goes on a 
seperate dedicated 28 GB HD.  Works very well.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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