I recently reconfigured a semi-retired MacBook Pro to desktop duties, replacing a 2008-vintage mini. In preparation, I ripped out the (probably not working anyway) DVD drive and installed a 120Gb SSD and a 1Tb spinner, configuring them as a DIY fusion drive. I more-or-less followed the advice here:
http://pintofcode.com/blog/2013/8/19/mavericks-and-fusion-drive General system performance is properly impressive. I’ll be watching the system carefully. If it continues to behave I’ve every intention of doing something similar to my Mac Pro tower, which hasn’t had an OS reinstall for years. It’s also high time I retired its boot drive: I'm at the stage of being mildly surprised every time a restart actually works. Meanwhile, my current laptop has only a 256Gb SSD. By pruning the applications I simply never use, relegating iTunes to another system, and generally treating it as a clean-room mobile workstation I’ve had no problem keeping typically half that drive space available for media. You just need somewhere else to put all your personal cruft. -- Jonathan Sanderson "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" (Pascal) On 16 Dec 2013, at 18:48, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] <[email protected]> wrote: > I am planning to use an SSD as the primary drive in my Mac Pro tower. The > SSD is not large enough to hold all of my home directory, so I'd like to put > some or all of my home directory on a second disk (a 3-TB hard drive). This > same issue is likely to come up with the new Mac Pro cylinders, which have > only one internal disk (an SSD of no more than 1-TB).
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