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The tests show that Windows 10, Ubuntu are roughly comparable in performance. Mac OS tends to perform worse on all measurements. Axiom performs better than any other systems on most measurements. Mac OS Extended (or HFS+) is still a good option for older drives, but only if you plan on using it with a Mac or for Time Machine backups. If you need a cross-platform option, consider using ExFAT for your drive instead—both Windows and macOS can read these drives without any additional software.

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Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard
By Ken Stone

Partitioning a hard drive is the process of dividing a hard drive into separate, discrete sections, called 'volumes'. You can create up to 16 different partitions on a hard drive, each one can be of different size and format, even including the 'MS-DOS' format for use with PCs on a network. With hard drives getting bigger there are reasons why you might want to partition a hard drive. Partitioning can be used for organization purposes, i.e., each volume could be used as a media (scratch) drive, each for a different FCP Project. I typically partition into two volumes, one for FCP Captured media, the second for DVD SP projects, for Builds and MPEG 2 encoded files. With FireWire external hard drives reaching one Terabyte in size, partitioning the drive can make project and file management much more manageable.

Formatting
When you purchase a new hard drive for your Mac, either SATA/ATA (internal) or FireWire (external) the box that the drive comes in will likely tell you that the drive will run on both Macs and PCs. This is true, but because the drive is formatted for cross platform compatibility, some stability and facility issues could arise. It is possible that your new cross platform hard drive could have a 2 gig file size limit. Using the drive for FCP (and encoded files for DVD SP) could cause problems. 2 gigs is good for about 9 minutes of DV capture. Capturing clips longer than 9 minutes could result in the captured clip being broken into separate files. So ... whether you intend to partition your hard drive or not, you really should reformat your new hard drive for the Mac. If your new hard drive is FireWire and you intend to use it with both Macs and PCs, then leave it as is and do not reformat.

Tiger and Leopard
The process of formatting and/or partitioning a hard drive is exactly the same for both Tiger and Leopard. However, the Disk Utility interface has change a bit from Tiger to Leopard.

In Leopard
When you launch Disk Utility in Leopard, it opens in default, with no drives selected in the left hand column. If you will look at the tabs near the top of the Disk Utility window (red box below), you will notice that the tab 'Partitioning' is not available as it was in Tiger.

Select the hard drive that you wish to partition in the left hand column. Once you have select a hard drive to partition, the Partition tab will now appear along with the other tabs near the top of the window, (red box below).

In the Partition tab, my Disk Utility is shown below. You will note that both the Name and Format sections are grayed out, (red box below). This is because the drive that I have selected has already been named and formatted and is currently in use. These option will become available once we have set the new partition scheme. Also note that the 'Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed' box is checked. Unless you have a specific need for OS 9 drivers, leave this box unchecked.

In the Partition tab select the number of partitions that you want from the 'Volume Scheme' drop-down menu. As shown below, I have selected 2 partitions.

Once you have set the number of partitions in the Volume Scheme' drop-down, select one of the partitions. When a partition is selected, as noted by the blue bounding box, (red arrow below), you will notice that both Name and Format, (red box below) have now become available for this partition.

Name your partition and then select your format. You'll want Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for a partition that you will want to serve as a boot (start-up) volume. Select Mac OS Extended (No Journaling) for volumes that will be used as media or data storage drives. You can change the alloted size of the partitions by dragging the little button found between the the partitions in the Volume Scheme section, up or down, (red arrow below).

Select each partition and then name and set the format. When you are done, click on the 'Apply' button.

In Tiger
If you are going to partition your new drive you can skip down to the Partition section below, as when you partition your hard drive, you will reformat the drive during the partition process.

1. After you plugin your new hard drive and attach it to your Mac via a FireWire cable, the hard drive will mount on your desktop.

2. Open Disk Utility. Applications folder > Utilities folder > Disk Utility. Select the hard drive in the left hand column and click on the Erase tab.

3. In the Volume Format drop-down menu, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if you plan to place the Mac Tiger operating system on this drive to make it a bootable drive. Select Mac OS Extended if you plan to use the drive as a media (capture scratch) drive.

4. Name the drive.

5. Install Mac OS 9 Disk Driver

There is an option to Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers. If you plan on using the hard drive with a Mac booting from OS 9, or believe that this might be a possibility, then select the checkbox to install the Mac OS 9 drivers. You do not need to install the Mac OS 9 drivers to use the disk with the Classic environment.

6. Security Options. When the default setting 'Don't Erase Data' is used, only the Directory information (information used to locate files on the hard drive) is erased leaving the actual files intact. This means, that for awhile, there is the possibility of recovering files. Over time the files will be over-written with new files thus destroying the data. For the paranoid there are three additional settings to insure that no data can be recovered from the hard drive.

7. Once you have selected the format and have named the drive, click on Erase. You will be presented with the 'Are you Sure' dialog box. Note that the volume still has the name 'untitled' because the process has not yet run. After 'Erase' the name will change to your new name.

8. Click the Erase button again. The Erase process will take just a minute to erase and reformat your new drive.

Partitioning
With the new drive mounted, open Disk Utility. Applications folder > Utilities folder > Disk Utility. Select the hard drive in the left hand column and click on the Partition tab. The drive will be displayed as one volume, 'Untitled'.

1. In the 'Volume Scheme' drop down, select the number of partitions you want to have. For this example I have selected 2 partitions.

2. Click in the top partition box to select it. Enter a name for this partition (External Boot) and from the 'Format' drop down menu select 'Mac OS Extended Journaled'. We do want Journaling turned on for a boot drive or volume.

3. I have the 'Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers' box checked. These drivers should be installed for machines that can boot into OS 9. If OS 9 drivers aren't present on the drive, you can't mount that drive from a machine running OS 9. If you want to boot into OS9 from this drive, oraccess it while booted into OS 9 from another drive/partition, its imperativethat you install OS 9 drivers when you initialize or partition. Even forsystems that don't boot into OS 9 it is a good idea; its possible to mountsuch a drive via Firewire T mode from another machine, which can come inhandy in rare maintenance situations. It doesn't hurt to have those driversthere, and you never know when you might need them.

4. Now select the second partition, give it a name and set Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaling off) as this volume will be used as a Capture Scratch drive. Note that Mac OS 9 drives are installed on this volume as well.

5. Now it's time to size each of the partitions. Place your cursor in between the two partitions, it will turn into a up/down arrow. Click and drag up or down to change the size of the partition, (red arrow below). As you drag, the new size of the 'selected' partition will be reflected in the 'Size' box, (blue arrow below).

6. Repeat the above process for each of your intend partitions. Once you have set partitions, named, sized, and selected formats, click on the Partition button. Your drive will be partitioned. This process will only take a few seconds. Be aware that when you partition a drive all information on that drive will be lost, so be sure to back up any data that you wish to preserve.

Journaling
When Journaling is turned on for a drive or volume, a continuous record (a journal) is created by the Mac OS, of the work that you do, i.e., opening, saving , deleting files, etc. If your Mac crashes or goes down do to a power failure, upon reboot, Journaling will help the Mac OS to get back up and running.

You can turn Journaling on, at any time, for any drive or volume. In Disk Utility, select the drive in the left hand column, then, from the Disk Utility tool bar click on 'Enable Journaling' (below left). Once a drive or partition has Journaling turned on, the only way to turn it off would be to open up disk utility, select the drive you want to turn journalling off, then hold down the option key and click the file menu - now the 'disable journaling' option will be available (below right).

Ignore Ownership
When you have finished formatting and partitioning your new hard drive, there is one more chore. If you plan to use this new drive as a 'media drive' for storage rather than as a Mac OS X System boot drive, you may want to insure that all files on this drive will always be read-write accessible to everyone (all Users), even when the drive is moved to a different Mac. This is important for Firewire hard drives being used as media (scratch) drives for FCP and other apps, as it will make the drive and its files accessible (read-write) on any Mac. To accomplish this, select the hard drive icon on the desktop and 'command i' from the keyboard which will open the 'info' dialog box. At the bottom of the window, make sure that the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' box is checked. If this drive is to be used as a Mac OS X System boot drive, never select 'Ignore ownership'.

Cryptic Error Message
There have been some reports of problems when attempting to re format some drives (Western Digital). If you have a new drive and attempt to re format the drive as Mac OS Extended, you could get an error message that says 'unknown error with the partition map'. This problem can occur because of the differences between a PPC and Intel Mac. Here is the work around.

Open Disk Utility and select the drive in the left hand column (the device not the volume) and then click on the Partition tab. In the Partition tab, click on the Options button.

In Options you'll see several choices, the first 'GUID Partition Table' is for Intel-based Macs. The second choice 'Apple Partition Map' is for PowerPC-based Macs. Select the choice that is appropriate for the Mac you are on, then click OK. You should now be able to format the drive as Mac Os Extended with Journaling on or off.

UNIX. A word of caution, the Mac OS X has UNIX at its core. There is one keyboard item that is reserved for UNIX exclusively. It is the forward slash, (/). Never use the forward slash in the name of a drive or partition, file, folder, bin, project, sequence or anywhere else for that matter.

Enjoy,

--ken

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A network drive, also known as a NAS (network attached storage) drive, is a storage device that connects to a home or office network instead of your computer. Some of the advantages of this are obvious: for example, you can get access files from a smartphone, tablet, or computer without having to plug the drive in.

Other, perhaps less obvious, positives of NAS include things like automated backups and the ability to mirror data on two drives. In other words, NAS offers a flexible and protected way to manage Mac storage that’s far beyond that of standard external hard drives. Read along to learn how to map a network drive and avoid some common NAS mistakes.

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Whether it’s populated or diskless, has one bay or more than five, a network drive is typically used as an alternative to cloud storage. It may be easy to drag and drop files to something like Google Drive or Dropbox, but just a bit of drive mapping can make using a network drive a fantastic cloud alternative.

Some of network drive’s key advantages include:

• Better control over your files
• More security features than cloud services
• Flexibility without compromising on privacy
• Being used by multiple users across multiple devices

Map network drive on macOS (one-time)

Nowadays, most NAS devices are seriously easy to map. Let’s say that you’ve been working on a document in your home office but have just remembered a key fact that you want to include. Time to make a quick edit from your wife’s laptop before you forget about it!

Network drive access can be obtained in three simple steps, provided you don’t mind having to repeat those steps if the connection drops, you restart your Mac, or the device is disconnected:

1. In Finder, either hit Command+K to bring up “Connect to Server” or click Go > Connect to Server
2. Enter the path of the network drive you’re trying to map (e.g. smb://192.168.1.300/shared/Files) and click Connect
3. Enter your login details and password then click OK to mount the network drive

You can now access the relevant drive either via your desktop or the sidebar in Finder windows.

Map network drive on macOS (remount after reboot)

Maybe you have a server in your office with a connected network drive and want all your employees to be able to connect to it so they can collaborate on shared documents. If you want to keep a Mac connected to a network drive, even after restarting, the easiest way to do this is to follow the three steps above then add these:

1. Hit the Apple menu, then System Preferences > Users & Groups
2. From here, select Login Items and click + to add a new item
3. Find your network drive and click Add, then close the window

Now, your network drive will be mapped and automatically remounted when you reboot your Mac. Network drives won’t, however, connect automatically if you’re using a different WiFi network.

Make a network drive accessible from Mac desktop

Depending on your settings, mounted drives may not always appear on your desktop. That’s not necessarily a problem if you don’t mind only being able to see connected servers in Finder window sidebars and open/save dialogues.

If, however, you want your NAS device to always be just one double-click away (in the same way that most people have Macintosh HD as a visible item on their desktop) just follow these steps:

1. Open Finder > Preferences or click Command + to open Finder Preferences
2. Click the General tab, then tick the box next to Connected servers
3. Close Finder Preferences

Remount a mapped network drive with one click

Managing, or working across, multiple departments that each have their own network drive? In that case, it can be handy to create aliases of mapped network drive(s):

1. Right click on any mapped NAS device on your desktop.
2. Select Make Alias

This might not sound like anything all that significant but, as the subheading suggests, you can use this alias to reconnect to a network drive with one click. That can be very helpful if you need to keep jumping between different shared drives.

How to manage files with network-attached storage

In most cases, macOS’s default tools are sufficient for viewing, editing, and deleting files. That might change, however, if you’re using a NAS device. For example, it’s very easy to end up with a ton of duplicate files on your network drive where it’s likely you’ll be less concerned about making the most of your storage as you might be with a built in hard drive.

Gemini is a great tool for digging out any duplicate content on your drives, so you can ditch everything you no longer need while hanging onto backup documents, photos, etc.

1. Open up the app and hit the giant + or drag your folder of choice into the window
2. Choose from recommended locations or select a custom folder
3. Push the green Scan for Duplicates button to get started
4. Delete duplicate files manually or use Smart Cleanup to automate the process

For a more granular approach to file management, you might want to consider something like DCommander or Forklift. These apps both offer dual-pane file management, as well as features like batch renaming, copying, and deletion, in a more seamless way than your default Finder.

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Although Forklift was designed with FTP management in mind, it’s become a favorite of network drive users because of how closely it resembles macOS. Billed as a Finder replacement app in parts of its marketing material, you won’t find an app much more native unless it comes out of Cupertino.

Plus, actually getting started with the app is incredibly simple:

1. Open up the Forklift app
2. Use the left-hand panel to find the file(s) you want to move across
3. Select the right-hand panel then, using the sidebar, click on your network drive
4. Start moving, renaming and archiving files

If Forklift isn’t for you then you might prefer to take a look at DCommander, an approved Mac alternative of Total Commander for Windows. In addition to two side-by-side file panels that look very similar to those of Forklift, DCommander puts a wider range of commands and features (including quick file viewing, selective file unpacking, navigation history, and a great looking Dark Mode) at your fingertips without the need to leave the dual-panel display.

Both apps let you do things like mark certain drives as favorites, create and browse archives, and get previews of items. In short, they’re much like macOS’s Finder … only better. It’s difficult to overstate how much easier it becomes to manage Mac storage with dual-pane browsing until you try to organize your network drive without it!

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Thanks to macOS, network drive mapping is a pretty simple process even if you’re not particularly tech-savvy. You might be out of luck if you’re hoping to access a NAS device from another network using standard macOS tools but, at present, that’s pretty much the only thing keeping network drives from competing with the cloud at the mainstream level.

If remote access isn’t such a concern for you and you’re using NAS as an alternative to cloud, then it’s definitely worth taking a look at programs like Forklift or DCommander to make file management easier once you’re done drive mapping, as well as Gemini to ensure that your NAS device isn’t filling up with duplicate files you don’t need.

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