SSD Question

wryoung said:

Question

I'm just beginning on my own Hackintosh project and there is one thing I am confused on. Most builds I have seen have had 1 SSD card and 1 HDD. My understanding is that you put your operating system on the SSD card because it is faster and then any storage you may need you use your HDD. If I am building a dual boot Hackintosh wouldn't I want 2 SSD cards and 1 HDD? One SSD for each operating system? Then use my HDD for any storage I may need which can be accessed while using either operating system.

Thanks
WRYoung

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wryoung said:

Question

I'm just beginning on my own Hackintosh project and there is one thing I am confused on. Most builds I have seen have had 1 SSD card and 1 HDD. My understanding is that you put your operating system on the SSD card because it is faster and then any storage you may need you use your HDD. If I am building a dual boot Hackintosh wouldn't I want 2 SSD cards and 1 HDD? One SSD for each operating system? Then use my HDD for any storage I may need which can be accessed while using either operating system.

Thanks
WRYoung

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deathjester said:

You can partition the SSD and dual boot both OS's if you want. I would make the Windows partition larger for games and I wouldn't do it on less then 128 gigs (dual boot both OS's).

You can also go the "fusion drive" route with a SSD. Fusion drive is just a 128 gig SSD and a 1tb sata drive. Instructions can be found on how to do it.

Thing you have to understand is many people don't play games, or aren't really big fans of windows, so they don't bother with it. Me? I like games. That is the only thing I do in Windows though.

1 128 gig SSD should be enough for both OS, some breathing room and a your favorite games. You will have to manage the SSD a bit more with one SSD but it is doable.

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wryoung said:

Question

I'm just beginning on my own Hackintosh project and there is one thing I am confused on. Most builds I have seen have had 1 SSD card and 1 HDD. My understanding is that you put your operating system on the SSD card because it is faster and then any storage you may need you use your HDD. If I am building a dual boot Hackintosh wouldn't I want 2 SSD cards and 1 HDD? One SSD for each operating system? Then use my HDD for any storage I may need which can be accessed while using either operating system.

Thanks
WRYoung

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ATB said:

Interestingly enough I am doing the same thing with my build. Ive asked PJALM about this and all I know is that for saving your data onto your HDD from OSX you need to format that HDD HFS+J, for Windows NTFS, and for Linux (Ubuntu) ext2/3. Im going to be using 2 SSD's (one Ubuntu, one OSX) and two HDD's for storage (a separate HDD for each OS to keep it simple and for more storage as well).

Hope this helps!

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Going Bald said:

OS X, Linux and Windows can all read/write to FAT32 and you could use this format for sharing a drive with some caveats.
The format you use on your storage drive really depends on the size of the files you plan to store. For a hard drive formatted MBR FAT32, the maximum file size is 4GB. The maximum MBR partition is 2Tb.

So if your files are >4Gb and your HDD partition needs to be >2Tb, then you must format the drive GUID and either NTFS or GPT+

If you are planning for using Chameleon/Chimera to dual boot OS X and Ubuntu, make sure that you choose "something else" instead of the default install when installing Ubuntu. This allows you to set the size of your partitions manually and choose where to install grub. It must be in / or in /boot for Chimera/Chameleon to see it as bootable.

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Going Bald said:

Something else you might find interesting:

http://lnx2mac.blogspot.com/2010/09/moving-os-x-users-to-separate-partition.html

You can even move the Users to a different HDD by using the UUID of the other drives HFS+ partition.

You can also use the bootcamp drivers for Win8 to see the OS X files on the HFS+ formatted HDD. If you drag the drive/partition icon to the libraries section of Win8 you can access it from there. If you need to work on it, copy it to a Win8 folder, do your work, save it. Next time you boot OS X, open it from OS X, save it on the OS X drive again.

Or, get a 3rd party app that lets you write NTFS with OS X and/or one for Win8 to allow read/write to OS X HFS+.

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