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#1 2008-10-28 6:06 pm
- Fatum
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Mac Pro Hard Drives
I have a Mac Pro with three internal hard drives in it, one for OS, one for backup, and the other I have a question about. Does it matter if the OS is not installed on the hard drive in "Bay 1?" And the other question is this. If I take the third hard drive and make that the drive for the Users folder would Time Machine still back everything up in the Users directory or would it just be the items on the OS hard drive? Thanks in advance
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#2 2008-10-28 6:21 pm
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drives
The Mac OS does not have to be on any particular drive or partition. You can (if you want) put several versions of the OS into different partitions/drives then tell your Mac to use a particular one upon startup (although the versions of Mac OS you can have will be limited by your hardware). Thus you could have experimented with, say, 10.5.x installed on your third drive before installing it on your main drive (which still had 10.4.y).
I don't have an answer on your Time Machine question.
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#3 2008-10-28 7:21 pm
- Fatum
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drives
Thanks for the reply. That is what I thought because of the ability to choose the startup disk. Good to have someone back up my thoughts on it.
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#4 2008-10-28 7:57 pm
Re: Mac Pro Hard Drives
Fatum wrote:
If I take the third hard drive and make that the drive for the Users folder would Time Machine still back everything up in the Users directory or would it just be the items on the OS hard drive?
I've run across this article which might, or not, be of some relevance.
How to Move the Home Folder in OS X - and Why
http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/06/how … x-and-why/
Computers never do what you want them to do; only what you tell them to do.
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#5 2008-10-28 9:48 pm
- Fatum
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drives
Instead of doing it by the way the article says you can also move all the folders in your home directory to a new hard drive and select the drive itself as your home folder. The drive icon will change to the house. I split up the third hard drive into two partitions and each partition is a different home folder, one for me and one for my girlfriend.
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#6 2008-10-29 10:46 am
- Fatum
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drives
Update: For those who care
Time Machine is working flawlessly, after restarting the computer with the changes to the locations of the home folders a couple of the preferences were changed e.g Wallpaper background, display calibration and mouse sensitivity but all works great. And I did notice a speed increase in the OS. Can't say how much but before it would take many (4-8) bounces of the iCal icon in the dock before opening. Most applications were like this. Now they all open at one bounce. I finally feel like I am on a quad core system.
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