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Benefit of separating OS/Application drive from Media drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1802919" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Separating the OS from your data on a separate partition (within the same drive) is the preferred way of operating with some OS' and the main benefit there is the ability to re-install or do whatever you want with the OS and not worry about having that adversely affect your data. </p><p></p><p>When your OS and data is on the same partition (traditionally how the storage is partitioned on Macs, with a single Macintosh HD partition) you lose that one benefit.</p><p></p><p>In your case, if you have an a 1TB SSD, thats using the PCIe interface (really fast, way faster than SATA, USB and TB) and you want to leverage that as much as possible to avoid long load times with large files. You can use a much larger and slower (potentially) external storage to hold your data for a longer period of time, but I wouldn't recommend working off it. You can transfer things back and forth as necessary to ensure that everything you need to work with is residing on the 1TB internal SSD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1802919, member: 110816"] Separating the OS from your data on a separate partition (within the same drive) is the preferred way of operating with some OS' and the main benefit there is the ability to re-install or do whatever you want with the OS and not worry about having that adversely affect your data. When your OS and data is on the same partition (traditionally how the storage is partitioned on Macs, with a single Macintosh HD partition) you lose that one benefit. In your case, if you have an a 1TB SSD, thats using the PCIe interface (really fast, way faster than SATA, USB and TB) and you want to leverage that as much as possible to avoid long load times with large files. You can use a much larger and slower (potentially) external storage to hold your data for a longer period of time, but I wouldn't recommend working off it. You can transfer things back and forth as necessary to ensure that everything you need to work with is residing on the 1TB internal SSD. [/QUOTE]
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