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<blockquote data-quote="ManoaHi" data-source="post: 1626118" data-attributes="member: 264133"><p><strong>Hope This Helps</strong></p><p></p><p>Sorry, @Paras, I'm a little lost. You have a lot going on.</p><p></p><p>Let me try to break up your questions.</p><p></p><p>Current Setup:</p><p>MacPro Late 2008.</p><p>You currently have two 1 TB HDDs. One is primary and one is backup.</p><p>Have a new 250 GB SSD</p><p>OS X version: unknown (please specify)</p><p></p><p>MacBook Pro - irrelevant as far as your questions pertain to the MacPro only, or so I hope otherwise I'm way off base.</p><p></p><p>Your questions:</p><p>1. New SSD make as primary drive. Yes, very easy to do.</p><p></p><p>2. All applications on SSD as well as DropBox folder. (the app and the folder are two sparate things so when you say "DropBox" please clarify app or folder). This is fine too.</p><p></p><p>3. a. Want SSD and 1 TB disk as single partition. Yes, but your disks must be erased and setup as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and setup as RAID as Concatenated Disk Set. You will not be able to be sure what goes where, so you can't ensure your apps are on the SSD </p><p>3. b. Do you want to setup as Fusion Drive? This is quite involved and it has to be done manually through the Terminal app. Apple is unlikely to do it using the Disk Utility GUI. It is not for the faint of heart, but if your used to configuring *NIX file systems, it is straight forward but still tedious. If you are willing to do all the steps involved, including configuring the disks, Fusion is a great solution since the OS will move files around based on their usage. The minimum OS is OS X 10.8.2 (which is the latest Mountain Lion)</p><p></p><p>4. CCClone. Great cloning app.</p><p></p><p>If I were in your situation, as I far as I know that your primary use is Lightroom, which is a highly intensive app, install the OS and ALL the apps on the SSD. Do not do 3a nor 3b as mentioned above. If you lose one disk you lose the entire data set and would have redo the whole thing again. It also puts your system backup at risk, you would have to image 1.35 TB of storage. You won't be able to CCC the 1 TB that is stuck forever into the Concatenated disk set, that will be the case in either of the #3 options. If you truly use the second 1 TB as backup, I'd keep each disk separate and RAID 0 (mirror) the two 1 TB HDDs for 1 TB and then if you loose one of the HDDs, you still have the other one. In other words, let the OS "clone" them for you, automatically. Still you should have a large external disk or two to TimeMachine it all.</p><p></p><p>3a: Upside, one partition to hold everything. Downside: failure of HDD will require reconfigure reinstall everything from backup. You will have to reformat disks of that system.</p><p></p><p>3b. Upside, faster for frequently used apps as they migrate depending upon use. Downside, one disk failure takes out the whole thing. You'll have to backup </p><p></p><p>Primary Disk: SSD, OS and apps, nothing else, leave the rest of it for swap and temp files. Upside, highest speed. Downside: waste of usable disk space</p><p></p><p>Secondary Disk: Mirror the two HDD and keep all data here including the DropBox folder. Upside: effectively an automatic backup that remains online that is usable through 1 disk failure (remember HDD failure is not an "if" it is a "when"). Downside: waste of disk space (wasting an entire drive), slower write to disk (since it has to write to two).</p><p></p><p>External Disk(s) Large: Time Machine above, exclude self. If you put on two or more, alternate the TimeMachine to all of them. Or you can just TimeMachine backup the SSD since the 1 TB mirror will have it's own natural backup.</p><p></p><p>For my only Mac, a MBA I run 5 TimeMachine disks. Two at home, 4TB disks, 1 TB at work and remains there. 1 additional 2 TB at work and 1 still yet another 2 TB in trunk and this one and one of the work ones rotate every work day, so the one in trunk goes to the office and one of the office ones goes in trunk. What this yields me is that if my Mac got lost/stolen/dead, I could get another Mac an restore everything from either where I am with my car, or in the office or at home. This means I have multiple off site backups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ManoaHi, post: 1626118, member: 264133"] [b]Hope This Helps[/b] Sorry, @Paras, I'm a little lost. You have a lot going on. Let me try to break up your questions. Current Setup: MacPro Late 2008. You currently have two 1 TB HDDs. One is primary and one is backup. Have a new 250 GB SSD OS X version: unknown (please specify) MacBook Pro - irrelevant as far as your questions pertain to the MacPro only, or so I hope otherwise I'm way off base. Your questions: 1. New SSD make as primary drive. Yes, very easy to do. 2. All applications on SSD as well as DropBox folder. (the app and the folder are two sparate things so when you say "DropBox" please clarify app or folder). This is fine too. 3. a. Want SSD and 1 TB disk as single partition. Yes, but your disks must be erased and setup as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and setup as RAID as Concatenated Disk Set. You will not be able to be sure what goes where, so you can't ensure your apps are on the SSD 3. b. Do you want to setup as Fusion Drive? This is quite involved and it has to be done manually through the Terminal app. Apple is unlikely to do it using the Disk Utility GUI. It is not for the faint of heart, but if your used to configuring *NIX file systems, it is straight forward but still tedious. If you are willing to do all the steps involved, including configuring the disks, Fusion is a great solution since the OS will move files around based on their usage. The minimum OS is OS X 10.8.2 (which is the latest Mountain Lion) 4. CCClone. Great cloning app. If I were in your situation, as I far as I know that your primary use is Lightroom, which is a highly intensive app, install the OS and ALL the apps on the SSD. Do not do 3a nor 3b as mentioned above. If you lose one disk you lose the entire data set and would have redo the whole thing again. It also puts your system backup at risk, you would have to image 1.35 TB of storage. You won't be able to CCC the 1 TB that is stuck forever into the Concatenated disk set, that will be the case in either of the #3 options. If you truly use the second 1 TB as backup, I'd keep each disk separate and RAID 0 (mirror) the two 1 TB HDDs for 1 TB and then if you loose one of the HDDs, you still have the other one. In other words, let the OS "clone" them for you, automatically. Still you should have a large external disk or two to TimeMachine it all. 3a: Upside, one partition to hold everything. Downside: failure of HDD will require reconfigure reinstall everything from backup. You will have to reformat disks of that system. 3b. Upside, faster for frequently used apps as they migrate depending upon use. Downside, one disk failure takes out the whole thing. You'll have to backup Primary Disk: SSD, OS and apps, nothing else, leave the rest of it for swap and temp files. Upside, highest speed. Downside: waste of usable disk space Secondary Disk: Mirror the two HDD and keep all data here including the DropBox folder. Upside: effectively an automatic backup that remains online that is usable through 1 disk failure (remember HDD failure is not an "if" it is a "when"). Downside: waste of disk space (wasting an entire drive), slower write to disk (since it has to write to two). External Disk(s) Large: Time Machine above, exclude self. If you put on two or more, alternate the TimeMachine to all of them. Or you can just TimeMachine backup the SSD since the 1 TB mirror will have it's own natural backup. For my only Mac, a MBA I run 5 TimeMachine disks. Two at home, 4TB disks, 1 TB at work and remains there. 1 additional 2 TB at work and 1 still yet another 2 TB in trunk and this one and one of the work ones rotate every work day, so the one in trunk goes to the office and one of the office ones goes in trunk. What this yields me is that if my Mac got lost/stolen/dead, I could get another Mac an restore everything from either where I am with my car, or in the office or at home. This means I have multiple off site backups. [/QUOTE]
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