Partitioning Drive Mac OSX

Skrikin · Post by **Skrikin** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:34 pm

I have a Powerbook 15', 1.25Ghz, 512Mb Ram, 80Gb Hard drive and am running Live 5 on OSX 10.3.9 for Dj'ing and production. I've read alot of posts on this forum about Partitioning your drive to keep the audio files seperate from the apps and was wondering about the pro's and con's. Everything i've read is for PC and i can't find anything for Mac. Does this only need to be done on PC's? And if anyone has done it themselves on Mac could they point me in the right direction for setting this up assuming it will have benifits......

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!

Cheers

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:59 pm

A far better concept is to use an external drive for your audio files. Not only can they be faster (7200 RPM), but it makes it far easier to backup your work, and to work on multiple computers.

I can't see the advantage in running multiple partitions in Tiger.

Skrikin · Post by **Skrikin** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:18 pm

I've only got one firewire port so i will have to daisy chain it through my M-audio Firewire Audiophile would this create problems???????

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:11 am

My Powerbook only has one Firewire port, too, which I use for the M-Audio Ozonic.

I have a Firewire 800 PCMCIA card (about £30) in my Powerbook for the external drive. You can also use the USB2 port for the hard drive. USB2 and Firewire speeds are comparable.

I use the LaCie triple-interface external drives, which are quite cheap and can be interfaced with USB, Firewire 400, or Firewire 800.

drush · Post by **drush** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:24 am

you really don't need to partition an OSX drive. just don't fill it past 25-30% remaining, keep permissions repaired, etc.

phredbull · Post by **phredbull** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:56 am

I've heard that it is a bad idea to store your audio on the same drive as your system folder, specifically with Pro Tools. When doing multitrack recording, intensive editing, bouncing files, and playing back 64 tracks, there is potential for serious fragmentation, which you probably don't want on your startup drive. The way I personally use Live, I'm not chopping multiple huge audio files to bits, maybe a 4 or 8 bar stereo loop, and probably more warping than cutting. Nonetheless, I do have my 160gb partitioned, I try to keep system amd OS related stuff on 1, and everything else on the other, but sometimes I have a hard time doing so, no thanks to Windoze.