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Few ?'s for those of you with Dual Hard Drives

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Rlkv011

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Hi,

I just purchased a SSD drive and love it. Very fast, and silent best upgrade I've ever done. I want to install the optibay or a generic alternative, (any recommendations?) so I can have dual hard drives. I am probably going to go with a traditional 500 gb 7200 rpm drive. This second drive is going to be strictly for storage.

My questions are:

1. For those of you with an SSD as your OS disc and a standard drive as your storage disc, does the standard drive make a lot of noise?

2. Did you notice a major decrease in battery life?

3. Is it possible to have iTunes on your SSD and your music/video collection on the standard drive?
 
1. Only as much noise as it normally would if it was alone (i have the SSD in the optibay and HDD in it's normal spot)... one thing to note though is that I don't believe there is a way to sleep the drives independently of each other in OS X so the HDD used for storage will run at all times unless you unmount it.

2. I personally didn't see a difference at all in battery life... i'm sure it's there but it's unnoticeable.

3. Not sure, some one else will have to chime in.
 
Rlkv011 said:
1. For those of you with an SSD as your OS disc and a standard drive as your storage disc, does the standard drive make a lot of noise?
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It doesn't make any more noise than any other laptop with a spinning drive, but you'll definitely notice it if you've gotten used to the silence of the laptop with an SSD.

Rlkv011 said:
2. Did you notice a major decrease in battery life?
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No, I haven't noticed any difference.


Rlkv011 said:
3. Is it possible to have iTunes on your SSD and your music/video collection on the standard drive?
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Yes, but off the top of my head I can't tell you how, but a search will yield many results.
 
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Please post back if this works! Very keen not to have to keep both drives mounted, Cheers:D
 
or you can do what I do, and just delete Music from your home folder and create a symlink to your data drive. In my case, I did:

$ ln -s /Volumes/Data/Music Music

And iTunes happily reads and writes to my disk based drive. Same with my Pictures folder and iPhoto.
 
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