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Virtual Memory and Other Drives?
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schalliol
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Nov 6, 2009, 12:36 AM
 
I'm thinking about putting a RAID 0 in my 15" unibody MBP. Right now I boot off of a ExpressCard 48GB SSD, which is really fast, but of course it's not that big. I figure that the array would be quite good at handling large swap files, but I don't believe OS X will just use other drives mounted in the system, but I wondered if I could ask it to do so, much like you can with scratch disks in Photoshop. Ideas? Thanks!
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Nov 6, 2009, 03:22 AM
 
Back in the early days of OS X I remember I had my swap files on a dedicated HDD partition too. It was as simple as editing a config file and including the new path. No idea if that stuff still works. But there's for sure still some way to do that. Have you tried google?
     
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Nov 6, 2009, 03:50 AM
 
I'd leave the swap on the SSD, since it'll be fastest there. Unless you're getting huge swap files.
     
   
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