Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

SSD in new Mac Mini urgent help needed!

philipma1957 said:
I have done quite a few samsung will work. the 830 or the 810 models even the 800 models all work fine.
Click to expand...

That's good to know - was it relatively the same process in which you added the SSD to the existing HDD to use as storage? I'm curious if there is anyway I can just keep my data on the HDD and then just remove OSX, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not :p
 
xheathen said:
That's good to know - was it relatively the same process in which you added the SSD to the existing HDD to use as storage? I'm curious if there is anyway I can just keep my data on the HDD and then just remove OSX, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not :p
Click to expand...

always keep a second osx on the oem drive as a fast recovery of your ssd.

I add a 128gb ssd and I partition the oem 500 gb hdd into 128gb and 384 gb. I clone the osx from the oem drive and then use the oem as a backup clone of the ssd. the 384gb partition I use for storage.

you end up with 1 ssd with 1 partition = your osx

you have the oem with 2 partitions.

this allows really fast recovery if your ssd dies. since you have a working osx on the oem hdd that is pretty much up to date. I use superduper and/or CarbonCopyCloner to do the backup 1 or 2 times a week.
 
Maybe this is a silly question, but I just don't know enough about OSX - but how does one "deactivate" the version on your OEM? Or do you just boot and tell it to now start using the SSD from now on and it's all good and it just ignores the version on the 128gb OEM partition?

I'm just so used to windows and how it just gets hosed up all the time if you mess with the OS :)
 
I put a screen shot up that shows connected drives.

I have 1 internal hdd a samsung 128gb ssd.

and I have a thunderbolt promise pegasus attached. the pegasus has 6 drives with a lot of partitions that have bootable osx.

next shot shows system preferences use that to pick start-up drive.

last shot shows me in the startup drive that i picked a 1tb samsung ssd (two 830 512gb ssd in a raid0) The mac osx does all this pretty much with ease and perfection. Allows me to never worry about loosing data or corrupting an osx.

this is an extreme setup.

you will have 2 drives with 3 partitions 2 can boot no problem.
 

Attachments

  • Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.41.04 AM.png
    Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.41.04 AM.png
    1.4 MB · Views: 106
  • Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.44.24 AM.png
    Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.44.24 AM.png
    1.5 MB · Views: 113
  • Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.47.10 AM.png
    Screen Shot 2012-04-10 at 7.47.10 AM.png
    1.2 MB · Views: 106
Last edited:
Use Apple RAM only during Lion install

I have noticed working with Lion that it doesn't seem to like non-Apple RAM present during install, at least definitely tried and tested as from 10.7.3, via internet...

also, google around on how to interrupt lion internet install on an 2nd drive (or partition) when it restarts, and then you'll have inside there the install image that you can restore to a 3rd partition and install direct from there. only 1 download needed

andy
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back