I got an external HDD today - a 500 GB Iomega MiniMax - and I'm wondering how I can use it best 🙂
On my internal HD (320 GB) I have around 50 GB worth of data, as well as around 30 GB worth of DV movies (and another 40 GB still on DV tape, waiting to be transferred). I intended to partition the drive into something like 350 - 150 GB (which I also did), and use the smaller partition as a Time Machine drive for my data only, and put all of the movies on the other partition.
But then I thought, maybe it would be a better idea to use my internal drive as the iMovie scratch disk (I edit my home movies with iMovie HD 06) and have the entire external drive used as Time Machine - that way I would have a backup of the movies as well. For now, space wouldn't be a problem, once I fill up my internal drive I would switch to the first solution.
Which of those two solutions would you recommend? Movies on external drive, with backup in the form of the original DV tapes (I always keep the tapes, however in case of drive failure the editing would be gone)? External HDD as scratch disk, and exporting all the movies to DVD/the internal drive once I'm done with editing (the end files don't take up such a lot of space as the source footage)? Everything on internal drive with external as backup?
On my internal HD (320 GB) I have around 50 GB worth of data, as well as around 30 GB worth of DV movies (and another 40 GB still on DV tape, waiting to be transferred). I intended to partition the drive into something like 350 - 150 GB (which I also did), and use the smaller partition as a Time Machine drive for my data only, and put all of the movies on the other partition.
But then I thought, maybe it would be a better idea to use my internal drive as the iMovie scratch disk (I edit my home movies with iMovie HD 06) and have the entire external drive used as Time Machine - that way I would have a backup of the movies as well. For now, space wouldn't be a problem, once I fill up my internal drive I would switch to the first solution.
Which of those two solutions would you recommend? Movies on external drive, with backup in the form of the original DV tapes (I always keep the tapes, however in case of drive failure the editing would be gone)? External HDD as scratch disk, and exporting all the movies to DVD/the internal drive once I'm done with editing (the end files don't take up such a lot of space as the source footage)? Everything on internal drive with external as backup?