Install Apps to Second Hard Drive?

I know this is an old post/topic but I was just browsing and came across this question. To answer your question you can move both the home and applications directories. I have a DAW with OS X Yosemite and it works great like this. It saves me room and speeds things up as I moved my applications directory to a Second SSD.

http://www.tested.com/tech/2341-how-to-move-your-apps-and-user-files-to-a-second ary-drive/

Move all the NON OS and Apps off the boot drive.

Keep all your applications with the system drive.

Mac OS doesn't normally need more than 150GB by itself, a few people have twice that (X-Plane can go anywhere and use 60GB)

I also would go for Windows on its own drive instead.

Move your home account to another drive or just all the data/doc and media libraries.

I've played with a dedicated 3rd party apps drive (10K or 15K SCSI) and it doesn't help. Sometimes you can install a few third party with your home folder if you really insist and drag and drop, most installers will still need to add to the boot drive's Library.

Mac OS X uses the Applications files as if they were paging files. So you should keep your Applications on the Boot Drive, and get almost all your Users files off to another drive for best performance.

These recipes:

Japamac's Blog: Make room for performance -- Moving the Home Folder

http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/

100 % Working... CAN USE SECONDARY HDD TO RUN APPS

Installing an application on a secondary drive is the same as installing it as one would on the Mac’s main hard disk: just drap and drop the .app into the Secondary drive. And you can run it from there once the application has fully copied itself over.

Just run the installer for any particular application you want to install, like you would for a normal OS X application installer on your primary SSD.

Once you have completed the installation/ just drag-and-drop that particular application from your applications folder, just run the application from your Secondary hard disk. Once you copied to your secondary one, just double check & Then you can delete that particular app from primary drive.

Hope this will help evryone

Thanks :-)

You are correct: Applications can be installed and can be run from a secondary drive.

But those Apps are likely to run more slowly, and you are likely to experience more disk drive and paging activity when running them off a secondary drive.

You also CAN run Applications that are installed only on a File Server (a completely different computer) but these will run so much slower the delays can be very annoying.

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For best performance, Applications you use regularly should be installed on the Boot Drive.