[Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX

[Mathew Jacobson]

I did this and it the performance boost was phenomenal -

replaced my optical (CD) drive in my macbook pro with another hard drive bay.  I have a 250G SSD drive that runs my system and my apps, and a 1T hard drive with my data.  

Performance is phenomenal, price was minimal, storage is enormous.

More on this:

https://mac.appstorm.net/general/upgrade-your-macbook-with-a-dual-hdssd-setup/ <https://mac.appstorm.net/general/upgrade-your-macbook-with-a-dual-hdssd-setup/>



> On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Matthias, Ted <tmatthias at williston.com <mailto:tmatthias at williston.com>> wrote:
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> Shel (et. al.),
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> For cleaning up files, I use a Mac utility called “GrandPerspective” (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ <http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/>) that shows files (and file sizes) in a graphical format using colored blocks. Each block’s size is scaled according the the amount of space it takes on your disk; larger blocks equal possible targets for deletion. Hovering over the blocks reveals the file path and the size of the file.
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> GrandPerspective can be run on a single folder or an entire disk.
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> Oh, and I am running the X-Plane flight simulator and Photoshop just fine on a 2011 Mac Pro with 16gb of memory and a 500gb SSD.
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> HTH,
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>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com <mailto:shel at principledprofit.com>> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Zach Fried, LPP LLC <zach at localprosper.com <mailto:zach at localprosper.com>> wrote:
>> One more thing to add: you always want about 10 GB and preferably more than 15 GB of free space on the startup drive. Think of this as breathing room for temporary system files.
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>> This may be my real problem. I have way less than that currently. I've been dumping what I can easily ID as unnecessary but it's definitely overcrowded.
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