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[vance09]

When i purchased my mac pro 2 weeks ago i ordered it with 2 1 terabyte drives and then i added a 650 for vista 64.
My question is ,i feel now the main drive may be a bit too large as its mostly used for apps and the OS ,i have started to place photos in a storage folder ,would this be a wise move.
I would hate to see only about 300 gigs used in the main drive

 

[ian.maffett]

That's all just personal preference. You'll be surprised (likely) at how quickly you find yourself seeking storage. The biggest downfall of a drive that's too large is that when it fail you lose more stuff if you haven't backed it up elsewhere. ...and it will fail, eventually.

 

[gugucom]

You would be better off putting the two 1TB drives into a RAID0 array. In fact it would be ideal to partition 10% off the top of each drive for the OS and apps. The other 90% keep in a second partition for mass data storage. Then fuse the two 10% and the two 90% partitions together with the build in software RAID0 feature of disk utility. This way you would get a seriously fast machine with plenty of storage for the future.

 

[vance09]

hard drive useage

thanks for the good comments,i will consider the raid setup in the near future

 

[Tesselator]

Yep, RAID0... But something to keep in mind is that it's a very wise and prudent policy to never allow any drive or volume that you use to become more than about 50% full. So 300 ~ 500 GB on a 1TB drive is about right anyway!

I say "that you use" because it's it's not under constant use (like a backup drive that just gets written to once a day) then it almost doesn't apply.