Dual HDD MacBook Pro for $10 + cost of harddrive!

[Emulex]

did you disable spotlight on the 2nd drive? - show us the dump that shows the sata speed and trim please 🙂

 

[alfa147x]

did you disable spotlight on the 2nd drive? - show us the dump that shows the sata speed and trim please 🙂

No Trim enabled. I still need to do that. Also I don't want to disable to spotlight on the 2nd drive.

Edit: Done

 

[sjwaste]

Nice setup. Did you move /Users to the secondary HDD?

 

[alfa147x]

Nice setup. Did you move /Users to the secondary HDD?

Nope no need. I'v moved iTunes and my Aperture library there. I about to move my steam folder there too.

 

[TheStu]

Nope no need. I'v moved iTunes and my Aperture library there. I about to move my steam folder there too.

So you can actually move the steam library now? Or is this an unsupported move with symlinks and whatnot?

 

[alfa147x]

So you can actually move the steam library now? Or is this an unsupported move with symlinks and whatnot?

well I was talking to a friend last night and he said if you install steam on the other drive it will install to that drive. I'm going to give that a shot. If that does't work I'll use the unsupported method you mentioned.

 

[sjwaste]

Moving the Steam library is pretty easy. Since I run FileVault on 10.6 (~ level encryption), I wanted my games outside of the encrypted volume for performance reasons (this is pre-SSD for me).

By default, Steam places everything under ~/Library/Application Support/Steam, I think. I moved that all to /Library/Application Support/Steam and symlinked from the original.

However, it broke when Steam updated at one point. I didn't fix it, I just reinstalled to the default location since I had an SSD now.

 

[sjwaste]

well I was talking to a friend last night and he said if you install steam on the other drive it will install to that drive. I'm going to give that a shot. If that does't work I'll use the unsupported method you mentioned.

How do you install an application to a different drive? I didn't know you could install anywhere other than the /Applications directory on the boot volume without tricks.

 

[alfa147x]

Moving the Steam library is pretty easy. Since I run FileVault on 10.6 (~ level encryption), I wanted my games outside of the encrypted volume for performance reasons (this is pre-SSD for me).

By default, Steam places everything under ~/Library/Application Support/Steam, I think. I moved that all to /Library/Application Support/Steam and symlinked from the original.

However, it broke when Steam updated at one point. I didn't fix it, I just reinstalled to the default location since I had an SSD now.

Choice one is to download MarkDouma.com SourceFinagler app and follow the directions. The idea is that you are 1)moving your Steam Apps folder to a new location and then 2) using this app to create a symbolic link that goes into your Steam folder. I tested this application in June 2011 and it worked well. This is by far the easiest and quickest method.- Hunt'n.

http://guides.macrumors.com/Symbolic_Link_(Fixing_Steam_Content)

How do you install an application to a different drive? I didn't know you could install anywhere other than the /Applications directory on the boot volume without tricks.

You just drag the Steam app from the installer to drive 2. <- that did not work.

 

[Tyranicus]

I have a late 2008 first generation unibody MacBook Pro. I bought an optical bay adapter and stuck a 120GB SSD in there earlier this year. I love the performance i get with the SSD. Rather than copying over my entire user folder, I used symbolic links for my Downloads, Music, and the Steam folder inside the Library, since those are what take up most of the space on my machine. I also put my virtual machines on the platter drive, but I didn't need symbolic links for that. The reason I did this, rather than just putting my user folder on the platter drive, was that the Library folder definitely benefits from faster access times.

 

[MrX8503]

It is the SATA port for the optical drive that is SATAII, not the caddy.

I know, thats what I meant. The optical drive, which is where the caddy goes. Thus he shouldn't put a SATA III drive in the caddy/optical drive bay.

 

[alfa147x]

A few weeks ago I added another SSD:

Damn this thing is fast. Also both drives have TRIM support.