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Best disk format for Aperture volumes

Today my new MacBook Pro was delivered, and before I migrate my data I would like to have some advice from this community on how to format the disks for best use with Aperture.


Fresh out of the box the system drive (500 GB SSD) and the second internal disk (1 TB) are both formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). Would there be any advantage in changing that to MacOS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) while the disks are still empty?


I will use that MBP mainly for fun - maintaining my Aperture Library, making music with GarageBand, maintaining the iTunes Library, creating movies with iMovie, QuartzComposer and PovRay, and programming. Unfortunately all my hobbies need a lot of disk space and processing power, so additional advice would be appreciated on how to get the best profit out of my 500 GB SSD.



Regards


Léonie


MacBook Pro, 17", Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.4 GHz I.Core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1TB HardDisk

Aperture 3, Version 3.2.3

Posted on Mar 27, 2012 3:40 PM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2012 3:44 PM

HFS+ of MacOS Extended (Journaled). You do not want case sensitive.


Allan

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Mar 28, 2012 9:55 AM in response to léonie

They are formatted as you should want them to be.


I have a suspion, btw, that there is no advantage to having the Aperture Library on the SSD and Referenced Masters on the 1 TB -- this is from some interchange I once had with someone with a similar confuration. If the image Masters are all to be on the internal big drive, I think performance would be better with a Managed Library on the 1 TB, but of course with the app running from the SSD. I have no equipment to test this, but the kind of files in an Aperture Library, ex masters, probably do not benefit from being on the SSD since the apply to the Masters. I run my library as Managed, but exclusively on a separate volume and drive from the boot drive.


Ernie

Mar 28, 2012 12:26 PM in response to Keith Barkley

Thanks, Keith,

where you want myphoto and MYPHOTO to refer to different photos

I certainly do - our family has a happy mixture of Linux- and Mac machines, and I frequently have to import Unix-files, and sometimes I need to work at Linux workstations.


Is there any risk involved, if I migrate my data from a Time Machine backup on a HFS+ of MacOS Extended (Journaled, not case sensitive) created from a HFS+ of MacOS Extended (Journaled) volume to a case sensitive volume?


Léonie

Mar 28, 2012 12:32 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

If the image Masters are all to be on the internal big drive, I think performance would be better with a Managed Library on the 1 TB, but of course with the app running from the SSD.

That is an interesting thought, Ernie - it would make life easier and leave some space on the SSD for my current GarageBand and iMovie projects. I'd like to go for that, but so far all statements I read here said "keep the Aperture Library on the fastest volume". Can anybody please confirm Ernie's observation?


Regards

Léonie

Mar 28, 2012 6:40 PM in response to léonie

Not following this closely so I might have missed a step or two but Léonie if you are thinking of formatting as case sensitive don't. It will open up a can of worms.


It's a real problem especially on a mixed format setup, that is some drives case sensitive and other case insensitive. There is no real reason to go case sensitive with OS X.

Best disk format for Aperture volumes

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