Partition benefits . . .

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Stephen,

Based on my 22 years experience with Macs, some bad, mostly very  
good, I agree with you that the preference for external (or now a  
days, perhaps, - interior) "real" drives is by far the better choice;  
particularly with their very low cost, remembering $800 one and two  
MB hard drives in the 80s. Though much slower, at this time, I look  
forward to the day when we have "huge" DVD-type memory mechanisms  
where there are no whirling disks that can "crash" and "burn" with  
our data. Even now, it would be smart of us to burn more CDs with our  
data instead of trusting these behemoth drives to continue to  
function reliably. Tape was good, but not very convenient, being  
totally linear.

Joe Wilkins

On May 7, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Sorry to be contrary, but I don't think another partition is that  
> good of a safety net. A second real drive is more reliable in my  
> experience.
>
>
>>
>> Still there are a couple of situations where the extra OS on separate
>> partition comes in handy, even for OSX;
>>
>> 1) defraging your startup disc
>> 2) extremely rare on OSX but if you ever install something and  
>> suddenly run
>> into problems, being able to restart off the other partition and  
>> do your
>> days work and worry about troubleshooting the normal partition at  
>> a more
>> convenient time can be a real "phew" moment.
>> 3) being able to do work whilst running maintenance - you can't do  
>> anything
>> whilst AppleJack does it's thing.
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