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Hi again,

If anyone can help me with a few Hard Drive Q's....

Current set up:

PB G4 1g mhz/1 g ram
Internal HD 20g
Running OSX & Logic pro7


Older rig- G400 512ram 
Internal Drive (measly) 10 gig 
Running OS9.2 and Logic 5.5
2nd Internal Drive 80 gigs 4x20g partitions

1st partition has samples
2nd has Logic & Audio files
3rd partition has itunes library
4th has OSX panther with Logic pro 7 (this was an experiment to 
see how OSX & Pro 7 stood up on this old mac...well...it works)

Here's what I think I need...

An external Drive for storage of samples (for EXS24)
I can access from the PB & the G4 (I know I'll update it one day)

I want to just use OS9 on the G4 for Internet... and mainly run 
OSX on the 80 gig internal hard Drive.

Now i get a bit confused as to how i should reformat or what the 
best way is to configure this set up on the 80gig drive

I read about having 1/3 for the system... OSX, say 25 gigs.. 
leaving 55 gigs for Logic Files & Audio files?

Would it be better to put samples & the logic files on the same 
external? so keeping everthing up to date on the one drive...

What do you do with your Logic & Audio files? Keep them on the 
internal drive or have 2 external drives? 1 for files , 1 for samples.

I don't think my PB has big enough internal drive for loads of 
Logic and Audio files.... I will add... my work flow doesn't require 
much streaming of samples as I mix and bounce to audio as I 
work by building up tracks gradualy. 

A friend mentioned my G400 Tower might make an interesting 
anchor for a tinny.... (a joke for the Ozzies in here)

Paul
Sydney, Australia

In my experience, from a non-MAC perspective.  Partitioning a hard
drive for audio makes zero sense.  It makes no sense because you are
using one physical drive and telling it to be 3 or more places across
the spindle at any one time.  Why not have 3 seperate drives for each
task?

If  you are using a desktop,  I would use one seperate (~20GB) drive
for programs like logic, OSX and such.  Then use a different drive (
and possibly a seperate ATA/SCSI controller channel) for Samples and
recording.  This seperate drive would be your external firewire/usb2
drive on a laptop.

You can also use the external firewire/usb2 drive for audio samples
and recording on a desktop if needed for extra space and mobility. 
You can use as many external drives as you need as long as your system
doesn't skip during audio playback and recording.  This is based on
system configuration and hardware specs.

Paritioning a hard drive made sense a whlie ago when drives were
expensive, or you need to dual boot too support 2 OSes.



> If anyone can help me with a few Hard Drive Q's....
> 
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