Dual Drives

[jdwagner888]

I just ordered 2 new hard drives for the MBP.

a 256 ssd for reg hd bay, and a 1tb hdd for optibay


When they come in the mail, I plan on first installing the SSD to download a fresh copy of OSX Lion. Then remove that and place the 1tb in to download windows 7.

This way if the SSD goes bad I will still have an alternate OS to use until I have a new one. Is this a good idea? Will it work? Or should I just dual boot both OS on the SSD to make things easier?

Thanks for the input!

 

[weemanpow3]

It's all up to you. I went with both OS on the SSD because I wanted speed.

256 GB SSD
OS X - 175 GB - partition
Win 7 - 80 GB - partition

Frequently used applications, etc...

750 GB HDD
Storage - NTFS format
- Constantly written data is written on this drive
- Music, Videos, Pictures, Documents, Games.
- Big applications that don't get used often.

On the storage drive I have main folders named "OS X" and "Windows." In these folder it house applications, games, etc... that pertains to the OS.

 

[jdwagner888]

It's all up to you. I went with both OS on the SSD because I wanted speed.

256 GB SSD
OS X - 175 GB - partition
Win 7 - 80 GB - partition

Frequently used applications, etc...

750 GB HDD
Storage - NTFS format
- Constantly written data is written on this drive
- Music, Videos, Pictures, Documents, Games.
- Big applications that don't get used often.

On the storage drive I have main folders named "OS X" and "Windows." In these folder it house applications, games, etc... that pertains to the OS.

Thankyou for the Input!

Your setup sounds like the original idea I had, do you run into any complications with ntfs format and osx?

 

[dusk007]

I got a slightly different solution.

256GB SSD
Win7 80GB
OSX the rest

1TB HDD
OSX sized partition. Fast at the beginning of the drive for temporary stuff and speed. A notebook quickly back online should the SSD fail. You can clone all essential stuff to it all the time.
The rest Data drive in exFAT. Writeable from both OS without any special software or crappy NTFS drivers.
Data drive only holds big stuff like pictures, movies, images, other big files.