[webi]

hi all,

just switched to mac to get serious about producing my own dv work to dvd.

as my beautiful new 15" pwrbk has only one hard drive (80GB) should i partition my drive to keep my video files seperate from my system (panther when it arrives in mail) and other detritus?

any advantages to leaving the drive alone, and any problems that arise from partitioning.

i'll be using fcp4 and dvd studio2.

any other tips on best practise for setting up a pwrbk for dv editing most appreciated.

thanks in advance,
webi.

[iohead]

Originally posted by webi:
hi all,
as my beautiful new 15" pwrbk has only one hard drive (80GB) should i partition my drive to keep my video files seperate from my system (panther when it arrives in mail) and other detritus?

You are much better off using an external drive for this purpose. Given a choice, you don't want to be writing large files to a notebook drive all the time (more so from a hardware point of view - not just a filesystem thing).

-A

[jac]

I agree with the previous poster. However, if you stick with just the internal drive you'll probably end up capturing to the system partition anyway when the other one is full (if you're anything like me). I'd stay with just one partition until you get an external drive.