BOOT DRIVE MAC PRO 5 1 HOW TO
BOOT DRIVE MAC PRO 5 1 INSTALL

So I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make backups daily (early morning while I'm asleep - machine wakes up, does its backups, and it goes back to sleep too). IMO, you don't update the boot drive as often as you do stuff to your other drives or home dir (obviously depends on what you are trying to do of course), so, assuming your other stuff and home dir are on separate drives, it isn't quite as 'earth shaking' if your boot is lost and you have a relatively recent backup.

BOOT DRIVE MAC PRO 5 1 HOW TO

Trying to figure out how to go about doing this.

BOOT DRIVE MAC PRO 5 1 INSTALL

When the computer starts up it gets the opperating system and applications from the SSD drive, but as i install programs and updates on the SSD it propigates them to my HDD, in effect an exact bootable copy. Just be sure you keep a time machine backup. You can safely delete your existing home folder. You can browse where you'd like to house your 'Home Directory' and I just selected the folder I created on that drive. What I did was created a folder on my '12TB' storage drive and named it whatever you'd like, then I just went in to System Preferences, hold the Control key and clicking (or right-clicking) on the account you want to change, and select Advanced Options. Windows 7 ran great on the virtual machine (again.housed on the non-boot drive). I've also used VMWare Fusion and later replaced it with Parallels as I found it to be a bit more fluid. I'm using the empty optical bay to house the 120GB boot drive. Everything else (including my 'home' directory containing downloads, documents, photos, music, etc) is housed on a spanned 12TB array in the other 4 bays. I currently use a 120GB OCZ SATA III drive as a boot drive. Whether it's to avoid issues, or to make upgrades in the future easier. I don't really have any other good reason for this, other than keeping things like this segregated. Either for another SSD, or lower cost 2.5' HDD. If you are looking to run Windows, which I don't, you might consider a using that second slot in the SSD kit above. I leave my user files on the SSD (with the exception of those listed above) since they really don't take up that much space. I have another HDD for Time Machine, backing up all of the above. Such as Photos, music, videos, downloads, etc. I have one HDD where I keep larger user files. On my SSD boot drive I have the OS, all my applications, my user directories and most of my user files. The kit allows you to install two SSD drives in the bay, keeping your other 4 HDD slots open.

You can get the necessary mounting kit from OWC as well.

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