On Jun 30, 2004, at 4:10 PM, The Doghouse NYC wrote: >> I partitioned the internal drives on my G5. However it seems that you >> can only do that when installing the system. I was used to the comfort >> brought by PartitionMagic on a PC and had to reinstall Panther to set >> up a suitable partitioning ;-) > > Hi Per- > Doesn't partitioning the system drive still leave the drive heads > divided > between the tasks of recording and the OS? Hi Nathan, Yes, certainly. There's no idea in partitioning the system drive to create a dedicated audio partition. As I understood the original poster he stated that "the drives are too big". Partitioning into smaller areas can protect your system from disk fragmenting (don't sure that's really an issue with OS X systems though...). > I was under the impression that > it was recommended to have a dedicated *physical* drive to record on. > > best, Nathan That's correct. And that's how I'm working over here. My system has the system drive partitioned into (1) "Macintosh HD" (system, program and office working documents) and (2) "Backup" (backup of office work documents). The second internal drive, my "audio drive", is not partitioned at all and contains sample library and project recordings. A third drive, an external Firewire 800, is mirroring this audio drive. I feel quite safe with this set-up. Recordings and sample library mirrored on two different drives. Office working documents mirrored on two partitions of the system drive AND a portable Powerbook laptop (if the stationary machines system drive should break down). All the best Per Boysen --- http://www.boysen.se http://www.looproom.com