[malson]

I just picked up a new Western Digital 100 gig hard drive from Sam's for $119. It's a 7200 rpm drive. I'm getting ready to pop it into my Dual 800 but need some advice on the best way to set up the partitions. I am currently running 9.2.2 on my Dual 800 until I learn more about OS X. I'm running X solely on my 500MHz iBook (well, whenever Apple finishes fixing the ^$%^ combo drive). Anyway, my plan is to move strictly to OS X in the next few months (by March probably). What would you do?

I don't do much with Photoshop but I am doing more and more with digital video and iMovie/FCP. I also have the stock 60 gig 7200rpm drive installed. Only other storage I have is an external 23 gig SCSI drive which currently holds all my MP3's and the contents of my 8500's hard drive that i haven't moved to the Dual 800 yet. So, give me what you consider to be the best options for partitioning this massive drive.

[Mithras]

The fewer the partitions the better, in general, I'd say.

Whenever I divvy up a drive into many partitions, I always end up un-partitioning it later. You just can't predict in advance how much space you'll need for DV, mp3, applications, backup, etc.

The only partitions I'd really suggest are:
* a small ~1gig partition for Classic & your classic apps.
* a medium ~8 gig partition for OS X, apps, and your non-media (small) documents.
* a big partition for all your media files. It's easier to have these separate so you can reinstall OS X cleanly if you need to.

I think that'd work fine.