I have 2x 250GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA disks. The system partition is 30GB but I suggest that you save at least 40-50GB for it. I have about 8-10GB free space on system and because OSX and applications use very much virtual memory (altough you had lots of RAM) some people have suggested that the system partition should always have at least 5GB of free space or even more. 10GB is a good amount.
About all programs need to be installed on system partition and cannot even be installed on other drives. Logic and about all apple stuff goes to system partition so prepare that you have enough space left there. I have managed my EXS24 samples so that I have first installed them in the default exs24 sampler instruments -folder but then made aliases of them and moved the real samples to my audio disk. So only the exs-files are located on system partition and they use the samples from another partition. If you don't want to use aliases of your samples, make the system partition even larger. Soundtrack Pro's included apple loops can be installed on another disk.
Partitioning the disk is very easy with the OSX installer DVD. The disk utility can be found in the upper menus.
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