G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL, Руководство по эксплуатации продукта

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Maintenance for Your Drive
G SPEED
STUDIO
XL
with Thunderbolt™
p. 108
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 42TB G-SPEED Studio XL 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.