I am very interested in any results of a Pure OS 9 environment with drives above 500GB that are partitioned and working The variable we need to test is the max size the OS 9 drive setup or "Hard Disk Speed Tools" initialize will go (most likely 2 TB). a Pure OS 9 system with many volumes for large drives has been a solid proven environment.
#WINDOWS 2000 ISO WITH 2 TB LIMIT PRO#
damn, even my Mac Pro raid card peaks at 2 TB drives Chris explains below some great choices if you want to move the storage out on the Network (although eSATA would obviously be a much faster) or if you want a dual OS X & OS 9 environment on the same system (which Diehard still frowns upon.lol).
The assumption of this post was that the system was going to be an "OS 9" Only System and that the actual hard drives would be 2 TB or less (NOT 4 TB). I personally never tried this, but it is worth testing out
#WINDOWS 2000 ISO WITH 2 TB LIMIT MAC OS#
Maybe a good approach would be to make as many 190GB Volumes, each Mac OS Standard for the volumes that will have Audio recordings and making the one that will store samples and OS Files Mac OS extended. Do you really care if at the end of an audio file that you waste 64K of disk space ? It is miniscule if you need to store 2 billion text files of 2K in size, then the clear answer is Mac OS extended, Number of files goes up to 4 Billion plus per volume and much more disk efficient. The larger the block size, the smaller the number of blocks the system has to track and load in memory and this is a huge benefit, and thus much more efficient in terms of the NUMBER of blocks needed to store a file. A small block size is STORAGE efficient, but not System efficient. Under Mac OS Standard we are limited to 65 Thousand files (assuming most are Audio, this might be OK) per volume.
The default bock sizes are directly proportional to the volume size and they differ greatly between Mac OS Standard and Mac OS extended. a block size of 64K (like under Mac OS Standard) would be preferred over a block size of 4K (like Mac OS Extended) with all volumes over 4 GB in size that will store audio files.
On Large Audio Volumes, it might pay to initialize Volumes as "Mac OS Standard" since when using Audio files (that are big in nature), it is beneficial to have a larger "Block size" upon volume initialization.
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