Optimal Hardware/Software configuration for FCP

I switched from PCs to Macs about 1/2 a year ago to due overwhelming frustration at numerous Windows crashes. I have used Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition and Encore on a PC desktop to do video projects. I now have a 17" 1.67 Powerbook with 2gb of ram and the FCP suite. On a Windows PC, I tweaked everything to get the most out of the computer, partitioned a drive for the video projects, did regular defragging etc etc.
Now that I am on a Mac, I am not sure what needs to be done and what doesn't. I have an external 320 gb Firewire 800 HD that has my iTunes library, some backup files and will be the drive I use to capture video to and edit from. The drive is not partitioned. I have read that partitioning is not really necessary in Mac OS as the file management is much better. I would like to partition it anyway to make a small boot drive in case the hard drive on the Powerbook fails. Is there any benefit to partitioning a drive for video/sound files for FCP projects?
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I haven't found much information on system optimization for FCP.
Thanks,
Philip
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Creating a back up system drive is a really good idea and it makes sense to partition your external drive to organize things. The other option is to just purchase another drive for that purpose.
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General things to do ...
Repair Disk Permissions
Repairing disk permissions is simply good system maintenance and should be done as part of ANY upgrade and/or application addition. In addition it should be run regularly just as a preventative tool. It makes sure that the permissions on application files are set to the read/write/execute permissions they should have. Sometimes these are changed through the addition of new/updated programs which can cause varied and difficult to track down problems.
Verify Directory Structure
Disk Warrior is a file directory repair/optimization program. It analyzes and repairs your disk directory structure as well as optimizing it. It will pick up and repair problems that the OSX included Disk Repair Utility can not address. It is an essential tool.
Run the Cron Utilities
If you leave your machine on 24/7 these ought to run on a regular basis. If you turn the machine off at night (or, are like me - during the day - vampires anyone?) you want to force these crititcal utilities to run. Download and run a program such as OnyX which gives you a number of options regarding CRON, flushing caches, prebinding (aka optimizing) dumping log and temp files and so on and so forth.
Down load and have ready to run the application FCP RESCUE. You can find it on Versiontracker. It is another one of the those really useful tools. It deletes all your preference files when they become corrupt. Once the system is working again and set the way you like it, it will back up the same files so the next time things go south, you simply overwrite the corrupt with the good -sounds like batman doesn't it...
Take care of your machine and it will take care of you!
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