Dual SSD + HD Setup

Hey all,
I've removed the optical drive from my early 2011 MacBook Pro, and replaced with a 750GB HDD. (Will use an external drive from now on when needed; I have an apple external optical drive and made the necessary modifications to my os so the earlier machine will recognize and allow me to use it.) I've also installed a 256GB SSD in the hard drive slot and installed the OS on the SSD. The SSD is in the old HDD slot because the SATA bus is faster in that spot vs the old optical drive. (twice as fast as I recall.)
The HDD, which used to be the only drive on the system, still has OSX and many programs installed.
I'd like to move a couple of important programs (Logic Pro, primarily, and maybe a few others.) It's simple enough to re install those and uninstall them from the old HDD.
However, should I (can I?) remove the OSX from the old HDD? It's a 750GB and only 150GB left, so I think Id' like to give it a little breathing room and start getting rid of some fluff.
Also, I assume I want to tell my machine to look for certain things on the HDD vs the SSD (iTunes media content, of course, and other space hogs.) How does one do that?
thanks!
Geoff

I understand that your home directory is on a secondary drive but I give you an alternative to that which solves this issue without the unlock utility ssn637 mentioned.
My configuration is that home directories are on the SSD but I created a directory structure for the user homes on the HDD as well. The user folders (or you can even do it on file level) that I considered not to store on the SSD were moved to the HDD and a symlinks were created at the original place on the SSD pointing to the new location on the HDD. (See man ln) This way you can fine-tune what user stuff to leave on the SSD system drive (and gain performance benefit) and what to move to the slower but larger HDD --- and in the same time the encrypted HDD is not needed for being able to login. (I haven't investigated to what extent this may depend on what you actually move to the HDD. I haven't moved those small hidden files in $HOME and left most of my $HOME/Library and $HOME/Applications folder on the SSD and it works. I moved mainly music, movies, documents, virtual machine images and stuff like that to the HDD.)

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Dual SSD

Thinking of puting dual SSD drives in my MacBook Pro (by removing the optical drive). I'm thinking there are two configuration options...
I could STRIPE it for a super fast single volume, OR, I could put the OS on one drive, and the swap file and virtual machine (Boot Camp?) on the other drive.
Oh also thinking of a single SSD with a 1Tb drive in the optical bay.
Thoughts?

Is there any reason you're not just going to get a 120GB SSD in the first place? [OWC has a 120GB SSD for under $300|http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internalstorage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_StatePro]. So unless you already bought the drives....
As to your actual question of whether OSX can boot from software RAID, I do not know specifically. I believe that it can, (correct me if I'm wrong) but I have never tried.
However, I would be quite concerned about booting from a RAID0 or simple spanned volume. You lose one disk, you lose all data. You'd want to be very certain about your backups. Yes, SSDs are more durable than platters, but Murphy doesn't care about such things. If it were me, I would NOT RAID the drive, but just use one for booting OSX, and the other for data. (But I'm probably more paranoid than most people. )
Me personally, I updated my 2008 MBP with a [Seagate 500GB hybrid drive|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591]. I needed the capacity for virtual machines but SSDs over 200GB are not at a good price point yet. So the hybrid is what I settled on. I'm finding that the platters don't spin up that much, which implies that the MBP is reading a lot from the 4GB cache on the drive, just like it would if it were a true SSD. So it's almost like having a SSD for most things until I fire up a virtual machine. YMMV, of course.

MBP 2011 Dual SSD

Hi guys,
I've just got a quick question, I'm thinking in the near future of upgrading my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro with dual SSDs. I'll definitely be getting a Samsung 512GB 840 Pro to replace my HDD but I was also thinking of getting a 960GB Crucial M500 to put in my optical drive bay. Has anyone had any experience with the Crucial SSD? And do you think this set-up is a good idea?
Cheers!

Your MBP may fall into this category:
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Ciao.

Dual Hard Drive Setup and Time Machine Backup

Hello All, I am about to start a major upgrade to my iMac and I just need a tiny bit of help.
I will be installing a secondary hard drive, an SSD into the empty space on my 2011 iMac, and upgrading the HDD to a 3tb. I know this is a big job but I did all my homework and I am ready to go. Here is my plan and my question:
1. Do the install. Add the 3tb hard drive in place of the 1tb original and install the ssd.
2. install mountain lion from disc onto the ssd
3. start up my new awesomly fast computer, and move the home folder to the 3tb drive so that only the applications and osx are on the ssd
4. use time machine to put all my data back onto my computer.
#4 is where my question is. If I use time machine to restore my data AFTER I have moved my home folder to the 2nd drive, will Time Machine function properly? Will it know that some of the data about the system will need to go on the SSD and some will need to go on the large capacity drive?
This is a very important question, because if it turns out that Time Machine will be confused by this, I will need to just back up my individual files and drop them piecemeal back into my new setup. This would be a huge pain and would make me rebuild all of my system preferences etc.
Has anyone done this before? Any insight would be very much appreciated!

Make life simple. Leave your HDD as it is and clone it to the 3 TB drive. Install the 3 TB drive in your computer and verify it starts up the computer. Next, install Mountain Lion onto your SSD. Put the SSD into the computer. Use Startup Disk preference pane to set the SSD as the permanent boot volume. Boot the computer from the SSD. Setup the SSD admin account with the exact same username and password as on the HDD. Open Users & Groups preference pane, click on the lock icon to authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the SSD's entry in the users list and select Advanced Options from the context menu. On the right side of the Home dir: field is a Choose button. Click on the button, locate the /Users/username/ folder on the HDD, select it and click on the Open button. Close the Advanced Options window and immediately restart the computer.
You will now boot from the SSD using your Home folder located on the HDD.
Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
         button.
     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
     5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
         to the Destination entry field.
     6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
         the Source entry field.
     7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new 3TB drive. Source means the old startup drive.

Best way to clone an existing drive, then clone back to a dual SSD Raid 0 setup?

Have a Mac Pro 5,1 (mid 2012) and want to install 2 SSD drives in a Raid 0.
Will attempt to use the Apple Disk Utility to set up the raid. any suggestions on this first part will be welcome!
But what is the best way to clone the existing SATA drive onto the Raid setup?
The 2 SSD are Samsung 84 Pro 256 GB units, installed on a Temp SSD Pro 6 Gb SATA PCIe card.
The OS is Mavericks 9.1.
Thanks !

Always no matter what, have a clone or three - clean, working image, last version before OS X 1.2.3 that you are about to install.
It is about INSTALLING OS X, not updating once you have it - though updates and security updates are known to be monkey wrenches too at times.
Never remove safety net, no matter how safe it seems.
Use a clone to run DU and repair the drive, the drive partition, it handles both (partition integrity was new to Lion), AND to invoke TRIM command when repairing (which won't happen in recovery partition mode of DU).
CCC does a smart update. You don't worry about applying updates to those, and in fact wait a few days before applying updates sometimes, or just make sure the clone is up to date so you can boot from and do a restore if needed. A system restore image is only as good as knowing it will work in an emergency should one arise.
Like to see people break ground on new projects and how to get more out of their systems. The 5,1 does not have the limitations or issues that even the 4,1 exhibited let alone even more for the Early '08 3,1s.
One good SSD alone should / would / make more improvement in performance for low investment than any I have seen. If you have the Tempo Pro card and 2 x 250GB 840's that is about $600 investment - throw in another system SSD and use the Tempo for scratch and/or Aperture and insure you have "more than enough" RAM and your workflow should be smooth. Even wtih that, which I call "best practices" the nMP 6.1 makes Aperture etc even smoother as everything is optimized better and the 1200MB/sec SSD and 4-channel 1866 DDR3 makes graphics smoother and respond instantly to your touch (sports car handling vs your sedan?)
After doing a lot of installs, upgrades, Migration Assistant; and then on a 2-4 week basis boot from another volume to run DU Repair.
OS X alone without the cache used and other things on the boot drive really only takes 40-160GB and makes it easy to create a DU sparse disk image for CCC to update and restore from and that can be kept anywhere. And have a small 200GB emergency maintenance boot volume that you can add to and create on any volume you have handy, shrink and add to that 2TB media drive or TimeMachine drive volume.
I would just set aside half an hour weekly or as needed to clone your system. Than clone again before you apply anything, system update or update to applications or new applications.
With all your personal data and media and projects not on the system you don't need a RAID0 array to hold as much data, no need for the added complexity or using two SSD devices, easier to maintain and restore. There is even a small added overhead to any RAID. With an 840 EVO 500GB just above $300 it makes a lot of sense to use those, and almost too big for a system drive. Fine if the system drive is not just OS and applications but media and stuff don't need to be there. Again, Aperture/Lightroom and other uses, yes and with t he new Mac Pro people are putting and using it for multiple purposes and uses that they would not have wtih the 2012 5,1 and earlier. But it is so fast it makes sense - and Thunderbolt 2 external storage has added more costs to storage.
Kind of got long winded, hope it proves helpful. And not confusing but may raise more questions and ideas.

Triple Boot w/ SSD/HDD Setup

Hi guys,
I previously had a dual boot setup w/ windows 7. Recently, I upgraded my HD to a 500 gb WD caviar blue and moved it into an optibay along with putting in an intel 320 series SSD. I was wondering if it would be possible to triple boot with having my Mac OS install on the SSD and Ubuntu/Windows 7 on the HDD(therefore having 3 partitions on the HDD, one for my mac data(music,movies, etc.), one for windows, one for ubuntu) My SSD is 80 Gb and therefore would not be sufficient for accomadating all of the OSes so I would need to put it on the HDD. Another complication would be the fact that I am only able to use the external superdrive, but I have already made USB sticks of both OSes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Well, I haven't tried this, but... the documentation says if you have more than one internal disk you have to disable one of them. I also don't know if Boot Camp Assistant will work on a disk that doesn't have Mac OS X on it at all, or if it just has an MBR. I know it gets ****** with three or more (visible) partitions, and will not even let you download/create the support driver USB stick, which is b.s.
However, if you can figure out a combination that Boot Camp Assistant will be agreeable, BCA 4 has the ability to somehow make it possible to run a Windows install image from a USB stick on certain Apple hardware. This is mentioned on page 4, in the middle paragraph, of the 10.7 Boot Camp Install Setup document PDF. But even if your hardware could support this, BCA may not let you do it for other reasons which of course it won't tell you why. It just won't let you. (Per usual Apple's error messages are not at all useful.)
Otherwise, I think you're going to have to remove the SSD, put the HDD back where it was, put the superdrive back inside the computer - do your installations - and then redo the surgery to get back to SSD + HDD.
Windows and Ubuntu install drivers based on the computer used for installation. With Ubuntu you might be able to get around this by rebuilding the initrd/initramfs after you get the drive back into your laptop, but I don't know if you can successfully get Windows to cooperate by moving the drive from one computer to another.
Basically you have a very custom situation and Apple doesn't tend to support custom anything. They provide tools for an extremely narrow type of support and if you deviate from that standard - well, you're on your own. So you have to blaze your own path.
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Dual Monitor Audio Setup?

Hi there!
Getting my new Mac Mini next week.
Question about setup - dual monitor and audio.
I will be connecting to my TV via DVI - HDMI and monitor via MDP - HDMI.
What are my best options for audio?
Monitor doesn't have speakers so I was thinking of using my current 2.1 system with a 3.5mm jack. I know I can use a splitter from the 3.5mm port on the Mini for analogue sound but is there any way of outputting digital audio to the TV and analogue to my speakers.
On my PC audio is carried to the TV via HDMI so auto switches audio when TV is detected, can the Mini do similar?
Cheers

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
1. The mini's m-DVI and m-DP do not carry audio.
2. Switching from analog to digital audio is a mechanical process that occurs in the audio mini-port. The digital mini-plug is about 2 mm longer than the analog plug and effects the change.
3. You might consider using the audio port as the source of digital audio for your TV and get a USB adapter for analog audio for your speakers.
4. You can add the digital audio to the HDMI stream with this device;
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?cid=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&pid=6331&seq=1&format=2
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Advice required fo new SSD/HDD setup and OS/App re-install

Hi,
Over the last few weeks my HDD has been failing verification (4 times in the last fortnight ). I have used both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior to repair the drive and each time the outcome has been successful, only to have Verify Disk report errors a few days later.
I therefore decided to get a new drive. I've gone for a Crucial M-4 256GB SSD. However, as I do a lot of database work (MySQL mainly), I don't want to hammer the SSD with lots of writes. So I have also bought a WD 500GB hard disk (5,400rpm) together with a caddy for installing it into the DVD space. The caddy comes with an external enclosure so that i can slot my DVD drive into there instead and continue to use it via USB.
System details: MacBook Pro 6,2 mid-2010, i5 2.53 Ghz, 4GB DDR3, both internal and additional gfx card, matt hi-res screen, OS X 10.6.8, Time Machine on Iomega external firewire drive
In my mind, I will be allocating the following to each drive:
SSD - primary drive:
OS X 10.6.8
All my Apps and Utilities, documents etc
HDD - secondary drive:
MySQL data files
OS X swap file
Windows 7 partition
Questions:
1. Does this sound like a valid setup - ie is it doable?
2. Will the SDD automatically be picked up as the primary drive when OS X boots?
3. How best to install OS X? Should I do a system restore from Time Machine or take this opportunity to reinstall from scratch? Time spent on this is not a major issue as I have a backup latop to work on in the meantime
3. Can I actually install Win7 on a secondary drive with Bootcamp or would it need to be on the primary SSD?
4. If I can install Win7 onto the HDD, will that Win7 partition be bootable from Parallels 7? I've heard some people have difficulty with this using VMWare
5. Is it worth having the swap file on the secondary drive or should I leave it on the SSD?
6. If I upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, will the full disk encryption work with an SSD?
7. I know that I need to go into the DVD app to edit the path to the DVD drive form 'internal' to 'external'. However, does anytone know if games that require the drive to be inserted also work with external drives? Not a big deal if not as I only have 1 of these left.
Any additional advice most welcome
Thank you.

Sparrowhawk wrote:
Over the last few weeks my HDD has been failing verification (4 times in the last fortnight ). I have used both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior to repair the drive and each time the outcome has been successful, only to have Verify Disk report errors a few days later.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the present boot drive to a blank external drive, you can hold the option key and boot off this drive.
Option key or c key boot off the 10.6 install disk and use Disk Utility to Repair the internal drive, preferablly to Erase with Security Option Zero all Data, this will assist in mapping off bad sectors on the drive likely responsibel for your problems.
Reinstall 10.6 fresh and use the same log in name as before, Software update fully and install programs from original sources and lastly files from the clone.
Your drive should be fine after this, if it's still having problems then it's very likely a mechanical issue and needs to be replaced.
The caddy comes with an external enclosure so that i can slot my DVD drive into there instead and continue to use it via USB.
You can't boot or install OS X/Windows from a external optical drive is what I understand, so you will have to plan around that issue with bootable clones, Winclone etc.
Clones can be booted from and reversed cloned onto new internal drives, in a lot shorter time and safer than TimeMachine restores.
note: intalling a drive in the optical slot is a violation and disqualification of warranty/AppleCare
Time Machine on Iomega external firewire drive
TimeMachineo only restores, it's not a bootable clone drive.
Most commonly used backup methods
In my mind, I will be allocating the following to each drive:
SSD - primary drive:
OS X 10.6.8
All my Apps and Utilities, documents etc
HDD - secondary drive:
MySQL data files
OS X swap file
Windows 7 partition
Questions:
1. Does this sound like a valid setup - ie is it doable?
No, Windows BootCamp will have to go on the same boot drive as OS X.
The swap file of OS X should be on the SSD for speed, yes it will wear it out, but it employs wear leveling and likely by the time the SSD wears out your going to be buying a new machine anyway.
So on the SSD, OS X, Windows, Programs, basic user folders. This way if the hard drive has issues your up on the SSD.
On the hard drive place new folders with data there, like a storage drive.
2. Will the SDD automatically be picked up as the primary drive when OS X boots?
You set either Windows or OS X as the Startup Disk in System Preferences, and it is the only boot drive.
With OS X/Windows which you select which partition to boot from using the option key at boot.
You could also go with virtual machine software if your hardware demands with Windows isn't great or you can do both.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
3. How best to install OS X? Should I do a system restore from Time Machine or take this opportunity to reinstall from scratch? Time spent on this is not a major issue as I have a backup latop to work on in the meantime
Scratch and only return files manually, no restores or migrations. This way your free of corrupted data.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
3. Can I actually install Win7 on a secondary drive with Bootcamp or would it need to be on the primary SSD?
SSD primary.
4. If I can install Win7 onto the HDD, will that Win7 partition be bootable from Parallels 7? I've heard some people have difficulty with this using VMWare
VM software of Parrallels and VMFusion can copy the BootCamp Windows and uses it as a file in OS X, which one can save snapshots of that virtual machine file, especially useful for malware and only updating pristine copies of Windows so your not pwned.
5. Is it worth having the swap file on the secondary drive or should I leave it on the SSD?
SSD for speed, it's extra space for memory and the faster it is the better for your computer,
If your in the box, might as well max the RAM, that's even faster.
6. If I upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, will the full disk encryption work with an SSD?
Yes, but Filevault has serious drawbacks, first it does slow down your CPU as it has to encrypt and decrypt everything on the fly.
If you have trouble with your machine, you can't easily access the Filevaulted drive to recover files.
If you have some sensitive data, you should be using a Iron Key self encrypting USB or a similar external drive (has it own keypad or key), because johhny law, customs and Apple will need the password to search or fix your machine.
With the sensitive data on a external source, then you can use it with any machine.
If you want to keep your speed up, not have to buy all new versions of software and some third party hardware as there are no drivers, I suggest you stick with 10.6 on that machine, it will be around for quite some time.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
10.8 on new hardware is coming, decide then or when 10.9 rolls out, don't torture yourself with 10.7 on older hardware in my opinion.
does anytone know if games that require the drive to be inserted also work with external drives? Not a big deal if not as I only have 1 of these left.
Most games I know install and have their own copy protection not requiring a disk being inserted as it wears out that way also won't work with machines that don't have optical drives.
However I suspect if it has that sort of content protection that it won't work on external optical drives.
Likely a game that old won't work on 10.7 nor 10.8 anymore anyway, so you will have to give it up.
Be warned that 10.7 can cost you more money in upgraded software, PPC based programs of old will no longer work. Also drivers for older third party hardware, so beware before you upgrade.
CS5 doesn't work too well on 10.7 neither, so you'll have to go to CS6 for instance.

Dual external monitor setup?

I'd like to use dual external monitors, ideally also plus the laptop screen for a total of 3 monitors, with my new 5th gen 17" MBP. I hear that USB-to-DVI options out there due have very poor poor refresh rates and picture quality. I'd like to use the ViDock2 expresscard/34 setup, which is a full fledged external video card, http://www.villagetronic.com/vidock2/index.html, but I understand it only works with MBP gens 1-4. Anybody know any other multi-monitor solutions that work with gen 5, other than poor quality USB options? Anybody know why the ViDock2 doesn't work with the MBP 5th gen?

Check out the Matrox dual head and triple head units, marc.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/
My suspicion is that you will need the more expensive "DP" versions to operate effectively with the new model.
Cheers
Rod

Dual SSD/Platter Set up

My initial goal with this project is to increase the performance of AE by lower render and editing time. My first thought with this project was to replace the standard HDD in my MacBook Pro with a faster drive. Faster drive=faster project completion.
Upon further investigation running through the forums a lot of people are running multipule drive machines a spectating there read and write drives to spectate ones to maximize the performance. I know some of the people who have thunderbolt ports are doing raid0 to accomplish this sadly I do not have thunder bolt.
What I would like to do is pull out the super drive and replace with a second HDD to accomplish this same type of idea. The HDD drive in the optical bay would be a traditional 7200rpm drive in the range from 750gb to 1TB to store the majority of the large files I have. The main drive I would change to a smaller SSD drive for my OS and apps.
All that being said I want the best return on my investment.
Would I see significant improvement in my work flow? Or is it just a waste of time/money?
If I did do that how would I set the settings in AE to take advantage of the dual drive correctly?
Here are the specs of my MacBook
2.8ghz core 2 duo
8GB ram (max)
500gb 5400rpm drive
OS Snow Leopard
Thanks for the help in advance

Unless you make excessive use of footage sources that require such massive file I/O, the advantage will be zero. Likewise, any advantages with using an SSD or RAID for disk cache will only show up, if the project is so complex, that using cached data will be faster than calculating stuff dynamically. AE has always worked this way and it still does, even if CS6 takes a much more aggressive approach to some of those things. It all comes down to what you do in your projects and it's the same like when to use MP rendering and when not or al lthose endless threads on the best computer for AE. There are no simple answers here. In the end, you could indeed spend a lot of money for nothing.
Mylenium

Bootcamp on dual hard drive setup

Hi all you Applefolks,
I'm having a serious problem installing Win 7 with Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 13" non-retina (MacBookPro9,2).
Currently I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64).
I used my MacBook Pro with Bootcamp on the partitioned original Apple HDD without a problem, installed both Mac OS an Win 7 fine,
a state I didn't even know I was very lucky with.
Currently I'm using a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD in the place where the hard drive belongs and an HRDWRK Optical Bay Caddy to use the 500 GB Apple HDD for expanded storage and I wanted to dual-boot windows from the HDD (not SSD).
Additionally I expanded the RAM to 8 GB but that was some months ago.
First things first.
I need Windows for CAD-Programs and Virtualization isn't powerful enough for my needs, or at least my MacBook isn't.
I tried some weird methods to install Windows 7:
- I virtualized win 7 and cloned the installed version to a bootcamp partition
- I swapped my drives and the superdive back and forth
Sometimes I was able to install Win 7, but never to boot it the second time to finish the install, or whatever it says.
I could help that by unplugging my SSD and from the mainboard and installing via USB, not a problem, everything went fine,
it even rebooted, without any problems, the problem started when I plugged the SSD back in, from that point on my Macbook wasn't able to boot the HDD (Win7) any longer.
I only got a blinking cursor.
So for the last three weeks, everyday before leaving home for work, I had to unplug the SSD from the mainboard to use Win 7 at work, which is something I don't want to do any longer, and opening an closing your macbook twice everyday doesn't seem to be a good option either.
I've been investigating the problem for quite some time now.
Please don't tell me, i should give it anoher try or use another .iso if you can't give any special advice on what it should change about the install process,
on another point on these forums I read that its possible that the files are somehow corrupted and that I should repair them using the repairutilities on the Win 7 install USB, but sadly if I plug it in I dont get the option to do so, the only screen I get is where I can chose whcih version of Win 7 to install.
Any help is appreciated, but please contribute to my problem.
Thanks in advance.
Philipp

Read the Boot Camp documentation. You can't Boot Camp a second hard drive. You must use the hard drive containing OSX.

SSD HDD setup in Early 2011 - SSD Read Only?

So I recently upgraded my Early 2011 MBP with a 240 gb Sandisk Extreme SSD and a Seagate Maximus XT 750gb 7200 RPM drive. I installed Mountain Lion as a clean install on the SSD and moved my Users folder to the HDD by doing the advanced options thing I had been hearing about in a few other threads.
Now all of a sudden my SSD is Read Only and it won't let me change the permissions (nor repair the permissions in Disk Utility) which is odd because I am te admin (and only user on the comp)
When I changed the users folder I added a second Admin account (admin 1 is just MY NAME and Admin 2 was named MY NAME - TEST) so I wonder if that has anything to do with it,
I would really like to not have to format all over again so any help with this would be great. Thanks

Thank you-
I think SATA II speeds might be adequate for my needs- much faster than the stock HDD, and the OS, Program and file handling capabilities of the Fusion Drive setup might be worth it. I guess I'll just have to try it, see if it works at all...
Of course, the speed gain is important, but perhaps only if long term reliability is maintained-
Thanks again-
j

Dual monitors (playback setup)

Hi folks!
Is there anyone who knows if it is possible to set up AE as picture below (a dual monitor setup)?
And that the monitor setup opens every time I open ae.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1OcyXc9rM
JesB

Addendum: I forgot about another option in AE that currently exists: in the Preview panel, there is a checkbox for Full Screen. If you enable this, when you RAM preview the preview will be displayed full screen, but only on the monitor where the main application frame for AE exists.
To use this option to accomplish what you want, you would need to:
1. Move the main application frame to your 2nd monitor.
2. Move all of the panels out of the main application frame and back to your primary montior. You can regroup them into a single window there. You only need to leave a single panel in the main application frame on the 2nd monitor; I'd recommend a 2nd comp viewer as I described in my last post.
Don't forget to save this arrangement as a new workspace.
Note that even by doing this, the full screen preview only occurs when you RAM Preview, not during scrubbing. Also, "full screen" really means "1:1 pixels", so if your comp size is smaller than the monitor's resolution, the difference will be filled in by gray pixels (the UI color defined in the Appearance preferences).

Trying to install Windows via Bootcamp (dual SSD, optibay)

I have an MBP 17" late 2011. I am running Lion 10.7.4. and I recently bought two Samsung 830 Series SSD drives to put into the MBP. I want to put one in the The second one I want to go into the optibay, so I bought a drive caddy. I am not able to install Bootcamp because I don't have an optical drive. I've tried a few software mods, such as adding 'mbasd=1' and here (www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?uid=225402&f=212&t=61921&start=0) to create a windows 7 USB install disk on Lion, and here (sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist) to try and get the external superdrive to work and others I've seen on various communities, but nothing seems to work. I can't use the Parallels route because my version of Windows is an Upgrade version.
A few things you should know: (1) I was able to get the superdrive working on my MBP using the software mod above, and I was excited to finally get Wondows installed on the second SSD. However, when Bootcamp goes to install it, it hangs at a black screen with "_" blinking infinitely. I feel like I'm close to finding a solution, but so far no luck. I'm close to just packing up the SSDs and returning them, even though I really like the performance I see.
I am not a beginner, but I am not an advanced programmer, so if you have ideas or fixes, please send them my way.
Here is the set up I want to accomplish:
1) Set up Bootcamp partition on second SSD. Drive #1 will be Lion, drive #2 will be a file store with Bootcamp partition also.
2) If using Bootcamp I can use my upgrade version of Windows. I can do this the traditional way of installing the older version, then the upgrade of Wondows, or simply install the upgrade version clean, then immediately reinstall it as an upgrade and the activation is clean. Before I get any grief on that, there are two things: (a) I've installed Windows several times on other machines this way and it is best because it is a clean install and (b) this was recommended to me by a MS technician when I had to call in a while back.
3) If/Once Windows is installed on MBP's second SSD (optibay), I will be using an external USB superdrive or a USB DVD/CD drive I own.
In trying to work all of this out over the past several days, there are a few observations I have:
A) I am baffled that the USB Superdrive won't work on anything except Mini and Air (even though I got it to work). I don't want to hear the "reasons" Apple does this, becuase I should be able to boot from ANY USB drive, like any other computer. What happens if/when my MBP's superdrive gives it up and no longer works? Drop another $2500+ on another computer?
Sorry for the rant.
Frustrated.

Middle of night but fwiw as long as you don't have two drives both using GUID you can do this. But you can't during install have OS X on A and Windows on B. Get Windows installed you will have to wipe out the one with Lion or disconnect it or something. Then reconnect or restore w/ Carbon Copy Cloner.
Format the one with Lion to MBR
BCA is not needed when you are not splitting a drive between both Windows DVD can be used to format the entire SSD.
Are you familiar with Carbon Copy cloner?

Dual-Monitor wacom setup with nvidia proprietary driver

Hello dear ArchLinux community. I'm new to this forum and very happy to join this great community.
I'll cut right to the chase.
I want to buy a Wacom Cintiq (tablet with integrated monitor) in the near future, and am therefore looking into issues I might have with the setup.
The desired configuration would have the tablet as well as a 24" screen hooked up to my geforce gtx275 in dualhead mode, with the input from the tablet mapped to the screen area of the tablet.
I've done a bit of testing for that matter with my old Wacom Bamboo and a second monitor.
Mapping a tablets input to a screen is very simple IN THEORY.
With the linuxwacom drivers you can map the tablet to one X screen (as displayed by xrandr).
The problem is that nvidia uses Twinview for dualheaded systems, which presents X with only one big screen, rather that two individual ones.
(mind you, this all worked like a charm with fglrx/intel)
I tried switching to nouveau, but this doesn't work for two reasons:
1.: Nouveau presents two individual screens to X when dualheaded, so I can use linuxwacom's MapToOuput.
What happens then is that, as soon as I use the stylus, the mapping starts to shift rapidly between one screen and the whole area. I haven't figured out, what exactly does that, but it makes it impossible to do anything with the tablet
2.: Nouveau, even with mesa, just has no 3d acceleration for my card. Since I do a lot of 3d work it just doesn't work for me.
Three other possibilities would be
1.: To try and disable Twinview/use something else. I have no idea if or how this works, though.
2.: To restrict the mapping area of the tablet in some other way. Again, no idea how to do this.
3.: To use two X sessions - one for either monitor. As far as I know this robs me of the ability to drag windows from one screen to another. Also, I don't know how Gnome3 would react to it AND I don't know how to properly configure it. PLEASE ADVISE
A last resort would be to buy an ATI card along with the Tablet (after all, if I'm going to shell out $2000 for a tablet I might as well add $150 to make sure it works).
With this I run into another problem, though, because Gnome3 and fglrx WON'T COOPERATE (please correct me if I'm wrong. I would LOVE to see a solution to these graphical glitches)
The actual question to you, fellow Arch users, is which of these solutions - if any - I should go for, and how to best execute it.
Any other suggestions would be great, too.
Thank you very much in advance.
Sincerely,
Gabriel [liveag].

You may not be SOL with TwinView. Do either of these links help?
Linuxwacom HOWTO - (ctrl-f 'TwinView')
HOWTO: Multimonitor

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