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Maintenance for Your Drive
Reformat with Partitions
Hard drive partitioning is the process of dividing a hard drive into discrete sections
called volumes. Each volume works like a separate disk. You can create up to 16 different
partitions on a hard drive in OS X, and each partition can be a different size and format.
With hard drives getting bigger, it can be useful to partition your hard drive such that
sections of its space can be used for different purposes. For instance, you might segment
user data from backup data, set up a multi-boot environment with different operating
systems or create a dedicated capture scratch disk for programs such as Final Cut Pro
™
.
The following steps will guide you through the simple process of partitioning your drive.
In this example, we will partition a 24TB G-SPEED Studio R connected via Thunderbolt.
1. First, open
Disk Utility
. This application is located on your hard drive under
Applications
>
Utilities
>
Disk Utility
. The window shown below will appear. Your
G-Technology drive will be displayed in the left column.