ArkaPro Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Im going to buy a quad-core mechine that should run PC and OSX86. In other words: Premiere, after, Avid Xperss on PC and FC Studio on OSX. I understand that OSX wont read the NTFS file system... If I want to share data (graphic/music/multimedia files) between the two systems I'll have to use FAT32? I heard that the max Partition size for FAT32 is 32GB - which is very small. I plan to have a 500GB HD for these... Here is what I thought of doing with 4 500GB HDs: I) System HD - two Partitions for two OSs - WinXP and osx86 II) Data and shared drive - Documents, Music, Multimedia files that will be available for both OSs III & IV) two Raid-0 drives that will be divided to two partitions each for OS (OSX FC studio projects & PC Premiere projects) what do you say is it possible? is there another file system other than FAT32 for the (II) drive? because its going to store a lot of data and I dont want to create 15 Partitions on it (because of the 32GB limit) Please fill free to correct me and suggest new/diffrent approaches... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Your idea is fine. However, it is possible for the Mac to read/write to NTFS drives and partitions. There is a little proggie out there called NTFS-3G which is neatly packaged on uphuck's install disks. It includes all the stuff necessary to read and write to your disks. I use it regularly with no problems. It's not as fast as writing directly to Journaled partitions, but most users won't tell the difference. Another option is to create OSX Mac Journaled disks and install MacDrive 7 on your PC so you can read/write to those drives right from Windows. This will give you optimum drive performance under OSX86. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkaPro Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Great! thanks. Now the other question is: can I create a Raid0 with two partitions one NTFS (for PC projects) and one Journaled for FCP Projects? How the heck can I do it? whats the proccess? If you are saing that NTFS-3G alowes OSX to Read/write NTFS , than maybe I'll just create the whole dame thing on NTFS... will I be able to edit SD/HD with NTFS on Final Cut pro? or it will be too slow to work with... after all its going to be RAIDed... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I'm kind of old school when it comes to raid. While I acknowledge the speed enhancement, I've never found the need for any more drive speed than what I have. I haven't been called to do a lot of HD editing yet, so that may change in the future. But for me, the higher risk of drive failure/data loss isn't worth the hassle. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkaPro Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Did you Edit with OSX FCP on NTFS Hard-drives/Partitions (using the NTFS-3G method)? Was it slow? Did you feel any change on performance? I mostly edit with SD now myself.. so I might wait a while before moving to RAID-0 BTW Is it that risky to have failures with RAID? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 As I mentioned, I don't see any noticeable speed difference between my Mac Pro and my Hack. I now have Premiere Pro CS3 on both Mac and PC so when I get a chance, I'll compare identical project on each system. I'm sure there will be an xbench difference, but I don't think I'll see a real life difference. I'm not the expert on raid but if raid 0 is the one that combines 2 drives to record as 1 big drive, if one drive goes bad, the whole raid goes bad and you lose all the data from both drives. Now a redundant raid where one drive mirrors the other actually serves to protect your data. If I did it, that would probably be the way I'd go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkaPro Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 So correct me if Im wrong (I just want to be sure): OSX Editing Apps (FCP & Premiere CS3) can work well with NTFS scratch disks using the NTFS-3G method, With SD materials? Did you try/test working with HD materials? If so, I'll have all Partitions runing NTFS excluding the OSX OS Partition. Happy happy, joy joy!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubswinfllclssic Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 So correct me if Im wrong (I just want to be sure): OSX Editing Apps (FCP & Premiere CS3) can work well with NTFS scratch disks using the NTFS-3G method, With SD materials? Did you try/test working with HD materials? If so, I'll have all Partitions runing NTFS excluding the OSX OS Partition. Happy happy, joy joy!!! Just FYI: You can always read NTFS in OS X... you just can't write to it without NTFS-3G. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59255-hard-drive-usage-for-dual-xp-and-osx86/#findComment-422382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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