opening the application is what takes the time not the data.
eg. opening itunes takes long once itunes is open playing a track is instantaneous.
You do the same on a pc os + applications on SSD and all data / saves on a HDD.
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opening the application is what takes the time not the data.
eg. opening itunes takes long once itunes is open playing a track is instantaneous.
You do the same on a pc os + applications on SSD and all data / saves on a HDD.
Oops, actually the following thread gives the write/read/CPU results:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1560506/
Could you please tell me how to do this? My lacie thunderbolt ssd is arriving tomorrow and I'd like to know how to get everything set-up.
Thanks so much.
open your home directors. Hold command and click go at the top open home.
Open your external drive and create a users folder.
Drag downloads, documents, pic, music, (basically everything but apps i did) over to teh new drive.
Then hold options and command and drag apps. (this will create the alias folder).
Once you have done that go to users and groups.
Right click on your name advanced settings.
Change your home directory to your external drive.
Restart and its all done.
So in other words you mean that the benefit of having all the datas on SSD is so marginal that it would be a waste?
Thanks passey. I have a few questions for you, as I'm a little confused.
You say to open home directory. Are you talking about on the ssd after I have moved my info onto it? I plan on using CCC to do that.
Then you say to open the external drive and create users folder and drag everything except apps over. Are you talking about the ssd or the internal hdd? That's where I'm confused by you saying the external drive. The ssd will be my external drive which I thought should only have apps on it.
Sorry if I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but could you please clarify it for me?
Thanks so much. I appreciate the help.
yeh by external drive i meant not the OS drive sorry.
use CCC and once its complete hold options when you boot and select the SSD.
Then I erased my Mac HD.
Open home directory on the SSD and Copy everything but applications to the HDD. Make an alias of applications on the HDD.
Delete all the old directories apart from applications off the SSD once you have changed your home file location in users & groups.
Thanks again passey, I'm no longer confused. So if I do this will iTunes automatically see where my music and movies are and open them or will I need to do something else to direct it to them?
This is probably a stupid question, but why do I need to put aliases for my apps on the hdd? I must not understand the way aliases work because I thought that aliases of the data, ie music, movies, would need to be put on the ssd. As you can probably tell, I don't know very much about these types of things.
This is probably a stupid question, but why do I need to put aliases for my apps on the hdd? I must not understand the way aliases work because I thought that aliases of the data, ie music, movies, would need to be put on the ssd. As you can probably tell, I don't know very much about these types of things.
Because your not just moving the folder but also going into system preferences and move where the home directory is itunes will be fine and auto pick up music.
The HDD is going to have actual files for download music pics etc but not apps because you still want them to run off the SSD to get the speed benefit.
The alias folder is a ghost folder that will just point to your SSD location as we want applications to run at full speed.
You could do it the other way and make aliases on your SSD for docs, music etc. Both will do exactly the same thing.
Bus powered SSD
Maybe things have changed since this was posed but I have put an 840 EVO 1TB SSD into a Lacie thunderbolt rugged bus powered enclose and it work absolutely fine. (swapped out the HDD).
What isn't clear to me yet is the whole TRIM thing. I assume it's an OS thing and not an internal thing to the drive. So I can use TRIM enabler to get my OS to send the commands.. Whether the 840 EVO can receive that command over TB or whether it even needs it remains mirky to me.. Any help appreciated.
Maybe things have changed since this was posed but I have put an 840 EVO 1TB SSD into a Lacie thunderbolt rugged bus powered enclose and it work absolutely fine. (swapped out the HDD).
What isn't clear to me yet is the whole TRIM thing. I assume it's an OS thing and not an internal thing to the drive. So I can use TRIM enabler to get my OS to send the commands.. Whether the 840 EVO can receive that command over TB or whether it even needs it remains mirky to me.. Any help appreciated.
I'm using a Samsung 840 in a USB 3 case velcro attached to the back of the imac stand. Can't remember the exact speeds but I think it's around 500 of top of my head.
I know you were asking about thunderbolt but just thought I'd share my setup anyway. Not been running long enough to report on how the lack of trim affects it.
Plenty fast at the minute though, my USB 2 external drive are my bottleneck now
I know you were asking about thunderbolt but just thought I'd share my setup anyway. Not been running long enough to report on how the lack of trim affects it.
Plenty fast at the minute though, my USB 2 external drive are my bottleneck now
Thanks, it looks like larger SSDs now use a lot less power than they used to.I'm using a Samsung 840 in a USB 3 case velcro attached to the back of the imac stand. Can't remember the exact speeds but I think it's around 500 of top of my head.
I know you were asking about thunderbolt but just thought I'd share my setup anyway. Not been running long enough to report on how the lack of trim affects it.
Plenty fast at the minute though, my USB 2 external drive are my bottleneck now
Could I use the 120gb SSD version of this to be my boot drive?
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10609
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10609