Is Partitioning my startup drive okay for logic?

[Orions Quest]

Hi lovely people. Okay I'm freaking out. I have Logic, and thought I did the right thing but am now thinking otherwise.

 

I have a G5 DUAL 1.8.

 

I recently bought a 500GB Internal HD. I partioned the Drive 100 GB for my OS and applications (where Logic Pro will sit), and the other 400 GB for Audio.

 

So technically, I think, these become 2 seperate HD's no? Will this cause some sort of conflict because I'm having both audio AND logic application on the same drive? I was under the impression that because I partitioned it, it would be considered 2 seperate drives. Am I okay?

 

Hey I'm just a new user, so any advice/help would be more than helpful.

 

Much Love.

[Dr.Frank]

Orions

It is better to keep the sample on a second HD and also keep the audio file on a separate HD. This will prevent the main HD to look for the sample and the audio file at the same time. For smaller project you will be ok but may experience problems if the project/samples/audio files are big.

 

 

Frank

[Orions Quest]

Hi Dr. Frank,

 

Thanks for your reply. You mention having it on seperate hard drives. But since I am partitioning my hard drive, isn't that considered being a seperate hard drive? I thought that was what partioning did?

 

Thanks again. If anyone else knows than lemme know!

[David Nahmani]

You can partition your hard drive as much as you want for organization purposes, but you're still working with only one drive and it has to work just as hard to access different files, whether they are on the same partition or different partitions. It is, however, easier to access different files on different drives, since each drive has its own set of read/write heads.

 

In short, Dr Frank is correct. Partitioning will not help with performance.

[Orions Quest]

Thanks Guys, you've been a great help!

 

Much Love.

 

Orions Quest