Installing Pro Tools 8 on a G5 2.7

[feryano]

I'm still on Tiger and protools 7.4 in my HD system and G5 2.7 6 gigs of ram. I have been having fun with pt 8 le on my Mac book Pro 2.4, 4 gigs ram and I really like the score editor, and midi editor specially.
I'm planning to upgrade my HD system soon. Just want to know, since I want to keep my Tiger and 7.4 just where it is now, which is my first esata drive and put Leopard 10.5.5 and pro tools 8 on the 2nd internal esata hard drive. Is it OK to install it on a partition of the 2nd drive? I have some of my libraries in the other partition!
Any thoughts are appreciated.

[mhmh]

I´m in the same situation and I got myself a new first Sata-Drive, partitioned it, put Leopard on one partition and cloned my old Tiger System on the other one. Works fine and since my old Sata-Drive was over three years old it was kind of due anyway.

As far as I remember it´s not recommended to have your PT Sessions on the same drive as the System, partitioned or not.

[feryano]

I do all my sessions in external firewire drives. It might be best to clone the tiger and protools 7.4 to the partition on second drive and reformat the main drive and put leopard and protools 8 on that.
G5 2.7, 6 gigs ram, protools HD2,

[woodsdenis]

I think the general rule of thumb is not to have any thing on your system drive like audio or samples even on a different partition. If streaming audio or samples, the drive head is trying to access loads of things at once as well as system and apps. Funny it seems like a lot of us are going through this one at the moment.
Check out
http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=234190


I am leaning towards a Seagate 7200.11 750 gig partitioned for the 2 systems
7.4/Tiger and 8/Leopard. and using the second Sata drive for audio which I have always done.I have a 3rd FW800 for all samples. I then have 3 separate drives for all the different tasks. Any Mac gurus like to give advice on this method



Denis

[feryano]

I forgot to mention, the reason I am concerned is because when a drive is partitioned you wont be able to choose the main icon at time of repair permission; you know the whole drive not the indent ones.