Ok so now I’ve done a new thing with my two-drive Mac Book Pro. In my earlier post I installed a terabyte raid in my Mac Book, by removing the optical drive. I wanted to really accelerate boot time and application, but I also wanted to have lots of storage (the other 500GB) to store my media.
I used an external drive to back up my raid, then I reformatted the drives, and formatted the new 128GB solid state drive. I was able to clone my main drive over to the SDD using Carbon Copy Cloner for OS X. I then moved my large media – all my movies and songs and my main work directory with my books and other large files that I like to have handy – onto the 500GB.
As you probably expected, this thing boots fast. Takes about one minute. And launching applications is often “one bounce” (in OS X dock terms), i.e. fast. I have to run and quit apps all day; task switching and app launching slows me down. I get a lot of word and excel documents with my patent analysis and I have to get them open and closed, look up dozens of web pages, quit that out, open new files, do more analysis. I of course like to run iTunes in the meantime.
Browsing is faster; launching is faster. A successful experiment!
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