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Q: To have great read/write performance, do you have to save all programs onto the SSD or can you save programs onto the HDD?

if I want to use the fast read/write speeds of my SSD, do I have to save the programs (Final Cut Pro X, Adobe After Effects, Microsoft Powerpoint, Steam, Counter-Strike, etc)  onto the SSD? Or can I save all programs onto a 2nd drive which would be a HDD  and still have fast speeds WITHOUT storing those programs onto the SSD? My 2012 mid Macbook Pro has a SSD as its main bootup drive and will be getting a 2tb HDD to replace the optical drive.

 

 

 

Any advice or comments is greatly appreciated,

Thank you!

 

MacBook Pro

Posted on Mar 23, 2015 12:40 PM

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Q: To have great read/write performance, do you have to save all programs onto the SSD or can you save programs onto the HDD?

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Mar 23, 2015 12:49 PM in response to Techinspace
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    Mar 23, 2015 12:49 PM in response to Techinspace

    If speed is vital, then use SSDs because they are considerably faster than HDDs.

  • by Zak Totkoff,

    Zak Totkoff Zak Totkoff Mar 23, 2015 3:18 PM in response to Techinspace
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    Mar 23, 2015 3:18 PM in response to Techinspace

    I got 1Tb SSD and no HDD so everything installed here plus the fastest 2.8GHz i7 processor available plus 16 RAM plus NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

    All this and still got the spinning ball here and there for no obvious reason. So don't expect miracles.

  • by Techinspace,

    Techinspace Techinspace Mar 23, 2015 4:20 PM in response to Zak Totkoff
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    Mar 23, 2015 4:20 PM in response to Zak Totkoff

    Have you tried updating to the latest Yosemite update?

    I heard it should decrease the spinning ball appears.

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Mar 23, 2015 4:53 PM in response to Zak Totkoff
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    Mar 23, 2015 4:53 PM in response to Zak Totkoff

    All this and still got the spinning ball here and there for no obvious reason.

     

    How many items in your Login items? And what are they?

     

    Do you have any "cleaning" utilities or AV software installed? Any bit torrent? Any adware?

  • by babowa,Solvedanswer

    babowa babowa Mar 23, 2015 4:55 PM in response to Techinspace
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    Mar 23, 2015 4:55 PM in response to Techinspace

    Remember that all the apps you mentioned require a lot of drive space (for rendering among other things) plus scratch disk space, so unless your SSD is rather large, I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

  • by Zak Totkoff,Helpful

    Zak Totkoff Zak Totkoff Mar 31, 2015 6:14 PM in response to Techinspace
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    Mar 31, 2015 6:14 PM in response to Techinspace

    Sorry for my late reply.

     

    My login Items are two: ColorNavigator 6 and cDock Agent. One is for the color calibration the other is Dock customization app.

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