Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Hard Drive Partitioning in Mac

Hard drives are the most commonly-used secondary data storage media in computers. They are certainly the most significant part of your Mac as they are responsible for storing data. They store your business critical documents, personal information and much more. In order to optimize your system performance and enjoy faster access speed, you need to organize files on the hard drive. A partition manager software can help you effectively partition your hard drive and avail full benefit of your system resources.

Partitions are like logical storage units or slices that intend to separate user data from the operating system and program files. They allow you to keep a separate area specifically reserved for the operating system virtual memory swapping. Moreover, you can also have multi-boot configuration on your computer by installing a different operating system on each partition. Thus, drive partitioning provides users with a number of benefits. A partition manager program will allow you to create partitions of the unallocated space on your hard drive. If there is no free space on your drive, it can enable you to reduce the size of a particular partition or if necessary, delete the partition.

Nowadays, the software market is flooded with dozens of drive partitioning utilities or partition managers. These software generally incorporate the following features:
  • Partitioning:
Partitioning is a process of dividing your hard drive into multiple logical storage units to speed up data access on the disk and optimize performance. This may also help you speed up the drive defragmentation process. A comprehensive partition software will allow you to create, delete, resize, format, and hide/reveal a partition.
  • Ease of use and Data safety:
Partitioning tools allow you to easily manage your hard drive without causing any potential risk of data loss. These tools are specifically designed for the non-technical users and contain step-by-step instructions to execute different partitioning task. 
  • Bootable DVD:
They allow you to create a bootable DVD that can be used to perform partitioning operations on your boot drive. Before performing any operation on the boot drive, you should backup everything onto an external hard disk.

One of the safest and most recommended partitioning tools that can help you effectively manage partitions on all types of Mac hard drives is Stellar Phoenix Partition Manager. The software is also capable of performing batch operations without any risk of data loss. Moreover, this tool is compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.          

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