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Enable Journaling on new Hard Drive

 
 


Terry T.
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May 9, 2008, 1:40 PM

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I just added an external HD to my iMac, should I enable journaling or not?

TIA
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carnicelli
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May 9, 2008, 3:46 PM

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Re: [Terry T.] Enable Journaling on new Hard Drive [In reply to] Can't Post
No. Journaling is good for your system drive but is not recommended for media drives.


Bill Carnicelli
Carnicelli Media Productions Inc


Terry T.
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May 9, 2008, 3:57 PM

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Mucho thanks Bill!
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Terry T.
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Ron Priest
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May 10, 2008, 7:50 PM

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No. Journaling is good for your system drive but is not recommended for media drives.
So, what is Journalling?
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Ron Priest
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May 10, 2008, 7:52 PM

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I just added an external HD to my iMac, should I enable journaling or not?

TIA
What type of HD Terry? Is it a SATA drive in a firewire or USB enclosure?
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Terry T.
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May 10, 2008, 10:18 PM

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Ron, its an external 500gb hard drive connected to my iMac via FireWire 800. Its mostly for storage of finished .movs & DVD content.
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Ron Priest
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May 10, 2008, 10:33 PM

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Oh I see. I was trying to figure out if the iMac will support a Serial ATA express Card Adapter such as this one from FirmTek

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA2SM2E/

If it did, then you could connect external eSata drives/enclosures to your iMac.
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carnicelli
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May 11, 2008, 10:44 AM

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Re: [Ron Priest] Enable Journaling on new Hard Drive [In reply to] Can't Post
Ron, first this disclaimer: I'm no expert on these things but I'll share with you my understanding of it. Journaling helps track everything on the hard drive so that an application like spotlight can almost instantaneously find things you are searching for. This function isn't needed for media drives and could theoretically slow down how fast the drive can write and read data. Now, on the other hand some RAID manufacturers actually recommend turning on journaling for their products. But generally for a single drive used as a media drive not in an array journaling isn't recommended.


Bill Carnicelli
Carnicelli Media Productions Inc