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BrandonRugzie

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Mar 21, 2011
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I am going to buy an OWC data doubler/60 GB SSD tomorrow, and I was wondering what the best way to split everything is. I have a 640 GB 5400 rpm inside already. I know I will put my user files on the SSD and my library (iTunes/iPhoto) on the HDD. I am more or less wondering how to make this set up work with the least friction....
 

awer25

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Apr 30, 2011
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You could get the Nimitz caddy (or something similar) from eBay. It works just as well, and with all the extra money saved you could get a bigger SSD.
 

wikus

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Jun 1, 2011
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Planet earth.
I got a Fenvi caddy from a seller called Segoo. I just did a test run and it works. I actually have triple boot on the macbook:

OS X 10.6.8 on Intel 320 120gb SSD via Optibay Caddy
OS X 10.6.8 & Windows 7 on default bay 1TB 2.5" 9.5mm drive.

I only use windows for web development and some games. I've decided to allocate 150gb for Windows 7, 20gb FAT32 for sharing (since I'm in school for web development, I'll need a partition to be able to read and write from both windows and OS X without MacDrive, I don't want to use the software). The remaining space on the 1TB drive is use for storage, music, movies, photos, porn and backups accessible predominantly from OS X 106.8 on the Intel 320 SSD drive in the optibay. The SSD drive is used *only* for boot and basically holds NO document files. It is however used as a downloads drive for Firefox but not for Transmission (I download single files up to 10gb large, that kind of frequent write/read/delete/move on the SSD drive would degrade its performance).

It really depends what kind of file system you've got setup. But this should give you an idea.
 

teameurox

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Oct 26, 2010
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I actually have the data doubler. I had one of the ones from ebay original but felt the piece of mind actually spending the money and getting OWC. As for drive splits I have my factory 250gb in the data doubler with just my bootcamp (windows 7 and windows 8) and then have Lion and Snow leopard on the new drive in the original bay. I did it my set up like this due to peoples issues with sleep/ hibernation with SSD in the data doubler.

Either way you go Im sure you'll be content, best upgrade I've made to my mbp to date
 
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