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<blockquote data-quote="archiecstll" data-source="post: 1080991" data-attributes="member: 165005"><p><strong>Partitioning</strong></p><p></p><p>The partition scheme looks good. A few issues of concern might be to ensure you have enough partitioned space for your time machine backups. Another, as you mentioned, is the partition for windows games and other files. Really, larger games should be installed to an internal drive, but anything older or rather small should have no issues running from an external. Lastly, the format of the partition for your project files should really depend on whether you need to edit them from windows at all. The Journaled format from OSX is read-only from windows under bootcamp. Furthermore, I wouldn't attempt to run a VM from an external drive, due to performance being hampered.</p><p></p><p>But ultimately you need to decide what is right for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archiecstll, post: 1080991, member: 165005"] [b]Partitioning[/b] The partition scheme looks good. A few issues of concern might be to ensure you have enough partitioned space for your time machine backups. Another, as you mentioned, is the partition for windows games and other files. Really, larger games should be installed to an internal drive, but anything older or rather small should have no issues running from an external. Lastly, the format of the partition for your project files should really depend on whether you need to edit them from windows at all. The Journaled format from OSX is read-only from windows under bootcamp. Furthermore, I wouldn't attempt to run a VM from an external drive, due to performance being hampered. But ultimately you need to decide what is right for you. [/QUOTE]
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