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Tex-Twil

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May 28, 2008
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Hello,
I just got my 256 SSD and I'm waiting for the MCE Optibay.

I will use my secod disk for storage but I also want to have Win7 in Bootcamp and I'm not sure what is the best way to partition. Here is are the possibilities I thought about:

Option 1:
SSD: 2 boot partitions. One for OSX one for Win
HDD: 1 NFS Partitions for Windows storage, 1 HFS partition for OSX storage

good: both OS will have the SSD speed
bad: when I'm in OSX, both disks will be mounted hence more power consumption. Less space on for both OSs.

Option 2:
SSD: 1 boot partitions just for OSX
HDD: 1 boot partitions for Windows

good: I could unmount the HDD when I'm in OSX -> more battery
bad: Win7 will not use the SSD. I will use the entire 500GB for Windows which I anyway don't use that often.

Any advices ?

Thanks,
Tex
 
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