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23 Replies Last post: Sep 5, 2006 2:16 PM by MacCheetah3   Go to original post 1 2 Previous Next
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15. Sep 4, 2006 10:26 AM in response to: finchna
Re: I will buy Mac Pro soon. Some concerns..
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Fair arguments. However, I don't see a reason for a 697GB boot drive or scratch disk.

I'll admit, it is much better and makes much more sense to have separate drives than just partitioning one huge drive. Despite the obvious logic, there are many who still see it as just as good to partition a huge drive and make each partition a boot drive, scratch disk, ... and believe it will provide the same performance boost as that of separate drives.

Anywho...Let's first get reasonably priced 750GB drives before we ask for 1TB drives.

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16. Sep 4, 2006 11:18 AM in response to: MacCheetah3
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and believe it will provide the same performance boost as that of separate drives.

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Perhaps it is time for you to reevaluate the rationality of those beliefs.
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17. Sep 4, 2006 11:46 AM in response to: Nobody
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I'll most certainly change my suggestion if you can prove to me that it is similar significant benefits.

From what I've heard and makes sense to me is that you use separate drives for such actions is because they are very disk intensive. Put simply...One won't slow down the performance of their boot drive ( application, system files, ... ) when there is high "scratch" activity when having a dedicated ( separate ) scratch disk. If you have a scratch partition on the same drive, you lose this benefit as the single drive is working both activities thus making it arguably the same as just having a single partition on that drive rather than multiple.

I hope that makes sense.

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18. Sep 4, 2006 12:02 PM in response to: MacCheetah3
Re: I will buy Mac Pro soon. Some concerns..
A very convoluted explaination but in your previous post where you stated:

"there are many who still see it as just as good to partition a huge drive and make each partition a boot drive, scratch disk, ... and believe it will provide the same performance boost as that of separate drives."

I took the above to be your belief but in reading it again, that is probably not true... so all is well.

On the price drop... for it to occur, the larger capacity drive is needed because only then the previous model will be sold for much lower price. It wouldn't surprise me to see something around 1.5TB/drive in about a year.
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19. Sep 4, 2006 12:09 PM in response to: Nobody
Re: I will buy Mac Pro soon. Some concerns..
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I guess, I'm just a bit bitter since I was going to make a huge DVD-to-MPEG-4 collection ( convenience, ... ) and backup solution but once you get above 320GB ( 400GB, 500GB, 750GB ) it almost becomes unreasonable. A 750GB drive is ~$400! Talk about ouch. Considering the size of files nowadays, you'd think huge storage would be cheaper. Oh well...

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20. Sep 4, 2006 12:42 PM in response to: MacCheetah3
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It's all relative... I paid $800+ for a full height 2GB Micropolis (no longer in business) 7200 RPM audio/video "qualified" internal drive not so long ago and far more than that for a 800MB drive from Apple a little before that... both times having a feeling that this would be satisfactory for my needs for years but you can imagine how well that worked out.

By the time a 750GB drive sells for $79.95 with a $25 rebate that never comes, ~3TB drive would be selling for $450 and you would need it (iApps alone would take 100GB to install) but griping about its price!
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21. Sep 4, 2006 1:33 PM in response to: Nobody
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I know. Just venting a bit.

Anywho...

I supposed we should get back on topic.

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22. Sep 5, 2006 1:42 PM in response to: itou
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I've heard that front row does not come on the Mac Pro, does anyone know if it will work on a mac pro if you copy the application over from say a intell mac mini?...
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23. Sep 5, 2006 2:16 PM in response to: Apple2Mac
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You could try the hack but there wouldn't be a lot of point since you'd need to buy a third party remote and I don't know if that works with Front Row.

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