04-17-2012, 10:22 PM
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I see from your description that you have both an SSD and HDD configured. What steps did you take to do this? Same as myself?
Also, I assume you also use your SSD for apps, and HDD for bulk storage?
And finally, would you recommend having a Bootcamp partition on the HDD which will be located where the optical bay is?
Thanks again!
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Sure
I had ordered a 500 GB HD and a 60 GB SSD from OWC, I then took out the 250 GB HD and the optical drive.
After I had installed the data doubler & SSD in the Apple default bay (Easy Peasy BTW), I booted from the 250 GB HD opened the Lion USB installer I made from the App Store download and started the install process.
The installer copied all the required files to the SSD and then proceeded to restart to the SSD and finish the install.
I then started bringing back files from the firewire 800 connected 250 GB HD to the SSD
All the apps went to the SSD, except for some larger ones/games that can reside out of /Applications.
My users folder I put on the SSD as well, because if the ~/Library files aren't on the SSD you will not see a speed improvement because all the support files the application needs are on the bottleneck HD. ( This is something I noticed, but no one on the internet mentions at all. )
Downloads, Pictures, Movies, Music, File Cabinet (My Documents folder) are all on the HD. Basically, anything that I do not need every week.
If you don't mind a speed decrease when using Bootcamp, by all means put it on the HD if possible.
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For simplicity, let's forget about the external drive. Let's say that for now, all I want to do is copy my current hard drive to the SSD.
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I don't have any personal experience with cloning, but from the number of posts I have read about SSD's they all recommend a clean install. Reason being, the SSD has a controller board that decides where the data is best located, on a normal HD data is written from one end to the other. Hence if you clone, you will have the HD's data arrangement which is not optimal for the SSD arrangement. Thats what I've heard anyway.