[sovereign]

I have a 250gb external hard drive which will be primarily used for video capture and editing. I see a lot of talk about installing OSX on external hard drives. Could someone please explain why this would be beneficial. Or, in my case, since I will be using this drive for video, why it may NOT be beneficial?

[Langdon]

It is useful because it is like taking your computer with you.You can just boot from any Mac and your data/programs are there. But I do not see why you would want to unless you needed iMovie or Finalcut with you.

[sovereign]

So, if I do not anticipate using another mac with this hard drive, it is not needed? Are there any downsides to having OSX on the drive? From the info I have gathered partitioning is not the way to go. I thought I had read in some posts that it is best to capture to a drive that does not have the OS installed on it??? Or maybe it was that I should not capture to the boot drive? I am getting ready to capture a bit of footage to this drive and don't want to find out later that I should have gone ahead and installed Panther on it. Thanks!

[Langdon]

No idea, I do not do a lot of video on my Mac. You should post to the Digital Video forum and not in here. The people who would know read that forum.

[Macola]

If you're going to use it to capture and edit DV, definitely don't use the drive for anything else. That puts it through a real workout.