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Hello All.
A year to two ago, when I built my most recent hackintosh, I decided on a dual-drive build with a custom 'Fusion' type drive format.
I have an SSD and a 1.5tb rotational HD. I love the speed by which it boots, and also ample storage space within my home dir to hold all my video clips, photographs, music and other documents.
I very much disliked having my 'home dir' but then storing all my 'large' media files on separate drives.
However, it is not without faults. I can not seem to get iMessage to work (there seems to be ample documentation of problems when using a fusion-style multi-drive). Also, I tire of the added complications for setting boot manager + worrying that system updates may not work quite right (updates to Chameleon, I'm looking at you).
So, I'm wondering, when Yosemite comes out soon, if I should re-format again, and have the SSD be exclusively boot + apps, and then on the rotational HD, setup 'user' dirs, and store my multimedia files there, and use sym links from ~ to the media files directories? This 'should' make the appearance of all files residing within ~, but with a less complex drive structure.
I'm looking to your suggestions, thoughts and comments.
-dave
A year to two ago, when I built my most recent hackintosh, I decided on a dual-drive build with a custom 'Fusion' type drive format.
I have an SSD and a 1.5tb rotational HD. I love the speed by which it boots, and also ample storage space within my home dir to hold all my video clips, photographs, music and other documents.
I very much disliked having my 'home dir' but then storing all my 'large' media files on separate drives.
However, it is not without faults. I can not seem to get iMessage to work (there seems to be ample documentation of problems when using a fusion-style multi-drive). Also, I tire of the added complications for setting boot manager + worrying that system updates may not work quite right (updates to Chameleon, I'm looking at you).
So, I'm wondering, when Yosemite comes out soon, if I should re-format again, and have the SSD be exclusively boot + apps, and then on the rotational HD, setup 'user' dirs, and store my multimedia files there, and use sym links from ~ to the media files directories? This 'should' make the appearance of all files residing within ~, but with a less complex drive structure.
I'm looking to your suggestions, thoughts and comments.
-dave