System Setup (OS, Drives)

Hello all, and thanks in advance for your time. I am trying to prepare for Leopards arrival the best way I can and I need some input. I have (bare with me) :
System-
G5 Dual 2Ghz, 3GB RAM (not really pertaining to this but thought it may impact something)
Harddrives-
Maxtor MaxLine Plus 2 250GB Internal
7200RPM
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 160GB Internal
7200RPM
Lacie Mini 160GB FireWire400
7200RPM
Maxtor 1Touch 3 300 GB USB 2.0
7200RPM
Maxtor MyBook Pro 250GB FireWire 800
7200RPM
/// My Question is this: What should I use for what? I need 1 drive for Tiger, 1 for Leopard. A drive for both Leopard and Tiger Backups. And a drive for my files (3rd party apps, media etc-so as to not slow down the system drives). I'm just wondering what drive would serve what purpose the best as far as access times etc. I am open to any partition schemes or raid etc. option, whatever you bring to the table leaves me better off than before so throw your scenarios out, please. Pretty much, if you had leopard/tiger, and my drives, how would you arrange them? Thanks again, -Patiently Waiting

And all these drives are blank?
Your Firewire 800 will be your fastest for access speed and read and write, so if speed is important to you for backup, use it there.
Don't forget you can keep more than one OS on a drive as long as it is partitioned.
Just a couple of thoughts, I can barely keep my own scheme straight.
What I plan to do is to use a blank partition on one of my drives to install Leopard and put it through it paces. If it performs as well as Tiger did, it will be cloned onto my main drive in about 3 days
-mj
[email protected]

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HDC Error
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Any help is totally appreciated ([email protected])
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Hello
I have seen this problem when there is not enough power coming from the Ac adapter or when the machine is being used with a battery only and the battery is too weak.
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I've been reading the tutorial
I'm afraid it has confused me much more.
First I'm not sure if I have the JDBC API. There are many files in my Sun folder named jdbc and some html files . How do I know if I have the proper files?
Second, If I don't, where do I get them? Whenever I navigate Sun's website I get lost every time.
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Php, Asp etc... I'm by no means new to the database or programming world but java has confused me. However I really enjoy it, it is different and intruiging not to mention I love a challenge.
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Duffymo;
I have a file called: jdbcodbc.dll is that the one?No, a .dll is a Windows dynamic link library.
The JDBC-ODBC bridge driver is part of the Java JDK that you downloaded. It's in the rt.jar that's part of your JDK, and the name of the class is sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.
it is the only one with an odbc reference. Should I
download more from the link you gave me? I'm trying
to be careful because I don't want to mess anything
up.No, you don't need to download anything else. If you wish to connect to Microsoft Access, the way they did in the tutorial, all you need is sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.
Here's a class that I wrote that might be some help. Feel free to study it, use it, or throw it away if you decide you don't care for it:
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import java.util.*;
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* execute any valid SQL against it
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    public static final String DEFAULT_PASSWORD = "";
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    public static final String DEFAULT_PASSWORD = "";
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Aperture system setups?

Hi all,
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Greg

Hi Greg,
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Tecra 8000: Can't boot - Message "Insert system disc in drive" comes on

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Multiple virus softwares say it is clean.
It crashes even quicker in safe mode.
I have the latest Toshiba raid drivers, but updated to a more recent Intel set. The error changes to iastora.sys, and goes back to iastor.sys when I switch back to the Toshiba drivers.
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64 Bit only
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Mercury Playback Engine
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With CS5, installing a CUDA enabled video card has a large impact on performance and lessens the burden on the CPU. The GPU does a lot of the work.
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So with the CPU running with a relatively low load and memory more or less a given, the only thing that may be a bottleneck to be improved upon is the disk setup. This can be seen easily by scrubbing fast through the time line with the popular AVCHD material. Due to the MPEG nature, while scrubbing one needs to look backwards and forwards to create the image under the CTI and that means a lot of disk activity. CPU is not a bottleneck, memory is not a bottleneck and the GPU is not the bottleneck, it is the disk setup.
Do not be fooled by the claims that SATA2 or SATA3 have enough bandwidth to support the data rate of AVCHD or other MPEG streams. Tests have shown that significant performance gains can be achieved by using a large number of disks, preferably in a raid. This is especially true when one has multiple tracks.
SSD's are not yet an economical alternative for conventional hard disks, with prices that are a factor 30 - 50 higher per gigabyte than conventional disks.
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To fully benefit from the performance gains that CS5 allows, it may be that using a MPE supported card will lead to the disk setup being the new bottleneck. Be aware of that fact.

at this point we are still trying to figure out whats up.
bear in mind DV VS AVCHD or Red is a completely different animal. there is a lot to process on encoding vs DV
we think the processors and HDDs are sitting there waiting on CS5
even with Dual Xeon 2.8GHz 12 cores its no faster than the 980x niether are CPU pegging, HDD pegging or ram..
interesting is the Dual Xeons will use about 10G (with 24G installed) ram vs the 980x using 6 (with 12 installed)
dual Xeons have dual memoery pipe lines 1 for each cpu so we think thats where its coming from
but we are still scratching our heads with a good deal of what we are finding in these benchmarks.
most is pointing to CS5 coding.
i am sure Eric will poke his head in here...
Scott
ADK

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<b>SAP Business One Best-Practice System Setup and Sizing</b>
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