- ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC HOW TO
- ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC MAC OS X
- ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC MOVIE
- ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC FULL
- ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC PORTABLE
I have always manually managed file locations for my client projects in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. I use Dropbox mainly for 1Password sync and iCloud holds much of my word processing, spreadsheets and presentations for access from the MacPro as well as my iOS gear.
ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC MOVIE
I manually move movie rips from /users/movies to my HDDs. iTunes and iPhoto are one-time points to their files. I've managed to live within a 128GB space by keeping the big stuff off my SSD.
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When you move your entire home folder to an HDD, your mac boots fast, but you don't get too much performance gain while opening applications (even apps that do not use any document, like safari). I tried to move my home folder to te HDD, here are my conclusions :
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ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC FULL
Tips on how full or empty to keep your boot drive and any gotchas you learned the hard way are greatly appreciated. What works for you and more importantly, why does it work for you? Is this thinking the current state of the art?
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His article titled Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup is great reading and seems to be relevant even if you have two spinning HDD. The best writing on this topic I have seen recently was written by Matt Legend Gemmell.
ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC HOW TO
There's not even a guide I've seen on what or how to set up a mac with two drives, so Apple have left us a clean playing field upon which to experiment. Software to intelligently move files to appropriate storage exists in the enterprise SAN space, but I don't think we'll see it for a while on the desktop.
ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC MAC OS X
Yet Mac OS X doesn't really have a Setup Assistant that's willing to help divvy up our data on two drives. (I've even seen Airs with a light USB drive semi-permanently affixed to the metal side of the display with velcro since sometimes even the slimmest Mac needs to pack more storage punch.)
ADDITIONAL STORAGE FOR MAC PORTABLE
SSD are fast, low capacity and expensive - HDD are in comparison slow, huge and cheap.īoth iMacs and Mac Mini can ship configured with two drives and all the portable Macs that still ship with an optical drive have a choice of several professional kits that securely mount either a second HDD or SSD inside the unibody. We're at a crossroads where most Macs now have space and connections to contain two storage devices.