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Apr 10, 2000, 5:02 PM
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Hard Drive Partitioning in Digital Video?
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Even with FCP Apple recommends that system and video data be on separate drives. Yet the iMac DV model is clearly billed as a stand alone editing station (having no fast HD expandability). My G4 with its single 27GB drive seems to work just fine as is but will disk fragmentation eventually catch up with me? (I plan to install an extra video-only drive shortly but it sure seems wasteful to later restrict the first disk to system/apps only when it has so much extra room.)
Is there a downside to partitioning a single hard drive that simultaneously performs both system and video tasks? It would contain system-application-related fragmentation but might it result in degraded sustained data transfer rate for the video part by somehow resulting in more work for the disk?
If partitioning is OK, what software to use as Apple doesn't provide any themselves [in using 3rd party drive setup software in the past, i.e., Silverlining, I've had driver incompatibility problems when later performing a system upgrade)?
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