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<blockquote data-quote="Sherman Homan" data-source="post: 270715" data-attributes="member: 22094"><p>I think you need to re-examine the desire to partition your hard drive. I don't think there is any good reason to do it. Especially if you use a software partition which is a guaranteed way to eventually crash your drive!</p><p></p><p>I read the MacWorld article and honestly, everything listed in it is either wrong or irrelevant. Just one example:</p><p>Programs like Photoshop can't possibly run faster on a partition that is on the same drive. Scratch files only run faster on multiple drives. Think about it, if you force Photoshop to write in one area of a drive, then page out a scratch file to another area of the same drive it would in fact run slower! Only with a second drive can the data flow faster.</p><p></p><p>Please let us know what you want to achieve with a partition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sherman Homan, post: 270715, member: 22094"] I think you need to re-examine the desire to partition your hard drive. I don't think there is any good reason to do it. Especially if you use a software partition which is a guaranteed way to eventually crash your drive! I read the MacWorld article and honestly, everything listed in it is either wrong or irrelevant. Just one example: Programs like Photoshop can't possibly run faster on a partition that is on the same drive. Scratch files only run faster on multiple drives. Think about it, if you force Photoshop to write in one area of a drive, then page out a scratch file to another area of the same drive it would in fact run slower! Only with a second drive can the data flow faster. Please let us know what you want to achieve with a partition. [/QUOTE]
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