On Apr 22, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: >> I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I don't partition my drives ... >> my startup drive is a single 500Gbyte volume. > > Yes, I started out with 750, as delivered by Apple. > Perhaps I am too paranoid, but with a background in system maintenance > and data recovery I think the options for backup up and cloning a > slightly smaller disk will be a lot easier. An exact clone will fit a > run-of-the-mill external USB disk these days, which would be > a problem with the 750Gb (unless you use compressed images).
There are plenty of 1Tbyte drives available, USB2/FW400/FW800 enclosures. ;-) I am currently working with 500G drives as it works well for the volume of work that I do. I'll upgrade to 1T drives when it becomes appropriate. > That is probably what I will do too then, the lightroom library > in my home tree, with the actual photos on the data disk ... I would put the Lightroom libraries on the same partition as the data. Lightroom will build its standard and 1:1 preview files in them and that is pretty disk-space intensive. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
