I just received my new 6 core mac pro and I am loving it thus far. I do have one question though. I have 4 1 tb internal drives and I was wondering if it would be fine if I partitioned the os x system drive to place my bootcamp win7 install, or if I should separate the two on two separate drives. Obviously if partitioning a single drive should cause no issues that would be ideal as then I have 3 1 TB drives remaining for data and storage, but I dont want it to come at the cost of stability in either windows or os x. Let me know what everyone else is doing.
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You can go either way.
Personally, I prefer separate disks, as you still have a working OS if there's a problem with one of them (software or disk issues). The reason is, it can allow you to gain web access, run diagnostics,... that can assist in getting your system sorted easier and quicker than working off of optical media, USB sticks,...
But if they're on the same disk and it fails, both are gone.
I've no idea if this is an issue for you though. But for some, the reduced time to get the system back up and running is important, such as server use and/or RAID (my situation).
Personally, I prefer separate disks, as you still have a working OS if there's a problem with one of them (software or disk issues). The reason is, it can allow you to gain web access, run diagnostics,... that can assist in getting your system sorted easier and quicker than working off of optical media, USB sticks,...
But if they're on the same disk and it fails, both are gone.
I've no idea if this is an issue for you though. But for some, the reduced time to get the system back up and running is important, such as server use and/or RAID (my situation).
Just out of curiousity, what flavour of Windows 7 are you guys running? Home, Pro, etc?