{"id":9037,"date":"2007-10-17T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/disk-shuffling\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:12","slug":"disk-shuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/disk-shuffling\/","title":{"rendered":"Disk Shuffling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I think with the install of OS X 10.5 and some potentially new-to-me 500GB hard disks I&#8217;m going to set things up as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/Volumes\/Alpha (320GB): Boot disk, OS, ~, iTunes Music, Apps, other normal stuffs.<br \/>\n\/Volumes\/Bravo (320GB): Photos, Misc Storage, 60GB (or so) partition for Bootcamp running XP, which will also be usable from VMware.<br \/>\n\/Volumes\/Charlie (500GB): Backups<br \/>\n\/Volumes\/Delta (500GB): Backups<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Backups are things like sync&#8217;d copies of most of the home directories on <tt>rowla.nuxx.net<\/tt>, data from the other volumes in the machine, stuff from my work laptop, and various other things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll then have two external 320GB disks left over, and I think I&#8217;ll use those for offsite backups and backups of my parents machine and such.<\/p>\n<p>The really nice thing about going to all internal disks is that there will be an overall power savings (no need to run external adapters), SMART stuff can be polled from all drives, there will be less noise, and I will (hopefully) avoid some of the external drive problems I&#8217;ve had with OS X in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The VMware \/ Bootcamp thing should also be nice, because then I can have just one XP instance available virtualized for normal use (development work, Quicken, etc) or full speed, running natively if I want to play some games. With the VM essentially having its own spindle it should run quite quick as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I think with the install of OS X 10.5 and some potentially new-to-me 500GB hard disks I&#8217;m going to set things up as follows: \/Volumes\/Alpha (320GB): Boot disk, OS, ~, iTunes Music, Apps, other normal stuffs. \/Volumes\/Bravo (320GB): Photos, Misc Storage, 60GB (or so) partition for Bootcamp running XP, which will also be usable\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}