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Tony Hall <news@tonyhall.prestel.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Please excuse a non Demon subscriber posting here (if it's totally out
> of order please forgive me) but I find this excellent newsgroup is
> essential reading.

No problems with anyone posting here really, although maybe creating a
mac group in the uk.* heirarchy would be a good idea?

> I've a shiny new 4Gb external drive winging it's way to me at the moment
> (and I thought my 250Mb internal would be more than enough!) and would
> appreciate people's advice....
> 
> As my Mac is a 68k I'm unable (I think) to use HFS+ so any
> recommendations as to the best way to partition and organise this new
> beast would be great?

It depends almost entirely upon what data you intend to store on it.
The only thing that should really affect your decision is minimising the
waste of space, the bigger the partition the bigger the minimum block
size, all files will be rounded up to a multiple of that block size, so
if you store lots of small files keep them on a small partition, if you
are going to record video then make the partitions as big as you can.
Maybe consider allocating 200MB+ to some swap space for the
MacOS/Photoshop or whatever programs you have that use it.

> Are there any advantages (speed, ease of use, features etc) to various
> 3rd party formatters?

There must be but to be honest I think in general it's not worth the
money to buy a new one, I've used a few but I still like FWB HD Toolkit
personally.

> The drive is from ONE Technologies and apparently uses IBM's DCAS 34330
> engine -- any comments? (I've 7 days to return it if it's a complete
> dog)

IBM drives have quite a good reputation, if you only have a normal SCSI
port then virtually all drives on the market should be able to throw
data at it at top whack.
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