What works better for you & why: parallels using a real partition or a virtual hdd?

I have to agree but I guess it depends on whether a similar sort of translation layer is occuring with a bootcamp partition....

I dunno, you're speaking from experience, have you noticed a little extra "snapiness" when using a partition as opposed to a virtual hdd on the same physical disk?

I'm about to try soon... I imagine the difference would be almost impossible to notice in most scenarios.

Of course the difference would definitely be noticeable once booted directly into windows on the same physical disk

 

some good points John..

However it doesnt stop me wanting to milk the best out of my Mac mini and it's apps (which is essentially what we're trying to do here). I'm already a junkie, it's too late for me! ;-P

cheers,
jed

 

I'll see if I can find some time to benchmark on a fixed sized virtual hdd versus using a real NTFS partition (both on the same, seperate, non bootdisk).

I might try some of the other combinations later on, but all with a seperate disk, as that is my setup.

But to find the right software to test this might prove to be the biiggest pain in the butt!

cheers,
jed

 

that's a good point, and there's good backup software for windows, but the unreliability probs I've had are more to do with the app itself in OSX as opposed to the windows system going awry, so I guess good windows backupware isn't necessarily going to mean diddly-squat.
I;m going to run voth a virtual hdd (sperate physical disk) and NTFS partition (seperate physical disk) for a while and mull over the pros and cons some more.