On Jun 30, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Sean McCoy wrote: > Given that the G5's still have room for only two internal drives, and > nobody really has need for a 160 Gig system drive, are G5-Logic users > ignoring the old adage about not using their system drives for audio > and/or > sample streaming? FireWire 800 is a viable alternative, but still isn't > nearly as fast as the internal SATA bus, and I can't imagine everyone > is > letting that much valuable and fast drive potential go to waste. Good question. I have recorded to the system disk with no problems but it should be pointed out that if you use the mac philosophy it is pretty easy to fill up your system volume even without recording audio or video onto it, although the way they have things set up it is pretty hard to avoid filling it up with audio from iTunes movies from iMovie, pictures from iPhoto, and loops and projects from Grarage Band, not to mention the fact that the system itself can write multi gig log files (especially if there is something wrong that is generating errors and the errors are getting logged) and huge index files for the search functions and other huge files for the file journalling.