Parallels

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:06 PM, steve harley wrote:

> they whom i call Hex Star wrote:
>> On 2/28/07, *steve harley* <steve at paper-ape.com  
>> <mailto:steve at paper-ape.com>> wrote:
>>     they whom i call Chad Leigh wrote:
>>      > Even then, they tend to get in the way unless you need  
>> separate
>>      > partitions to install multiple copies of the OS or something.
>>     yeah, the same way multiple hard drives get in the way
>> they don't really...just think of a raid 1 or the mirrored raid  
>> setup for backuping purposes ;-) :-)
>
> that was my (too subtle) point, except the RAID part is irrelevant  
> -- the hassles of partitions are little different from the hassles  
> of using multiple hard drives; they also have similar advantages;   
> we don't hear many people say "avoid multiple hard drives because  
> they get in the way" ...


Except there ARE differences.

#1.  Disks tend to be much bigger than partitions so you don't end up  
with your free space being on the wrong disk as often

#2.  Partitions are a choice.  Disks aren't.  In other words,  
multiple disks usually happen when I run out of space and need more.   
Partitions happen as a way of trying to guess your future  
organnizational needs, and usually not doing it right :-)

Chad