New drive

[Philippe Chandless]

Good mornings Smuggers,

I’ve just bought a new drive which I plan to use to back up my photo library. The pictures will take up about 1TB on the drive which is 4TB. Allowing for an increase in the size of my photo library (which will take years) could I partition the drive into three drives (2TB photos, 1TB Time Machine and 1TB storage) ? I already back up my 500GB MacBook Pro using Carbon Copy Cloner and BackBlaze.  

I would like to know if this is sensible/practical ? I’ve never really partitioned drives before and I’m not are if there are any do’s and dont’s.

Regards

Philippe

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

I’d leave it all as a single 4TB partition and use time machine to backup the entire Mac, much simpler. You could get a separate drive to run as a drive clone, can never have too much backup.

Sam

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On 20 Nov 2019, at 11:11, Philippe Chandless <phil...@pobox.com> wrote:



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