samedi 3 mai 2014

Why partition a hard drive?

Long question

Set-up:

Late 2010 iMac 27" i7, running 10.6.8, Mavericks also installed but never used.



Three existing hard drives-divided into multiple partitions;

A) 2Tb internal with Boot partition with Apps, Mavericks partition, a large iTunes partition, Raw video partition and a "overhead" ie junk file.

B) 2Tb external with partitions for cloned back-ups of Boot drives, iTunes, video, and photos

C) A WD 4Tb drive with archive of compressed copies of video files and photos

- (this is a USB 2 drive, and I feel it is slowing everything down - will become off-line storage)



And now a brand new external 4Tb G-Tech drive (firewire) - thinking/planning to partition half for iTunes, the other half for misc files and scratch disk.



I try to carefully estimate the space required for each, but they are either full or there is a percentage of space left un-used/un-useable on each partition. Re-partitioning is a pain!



Finally, my question

I'm wondering if I should remove some partitions & rely on folders to organize everything, this would permit better use of all available space.



Any comments would be appreciated





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