Many designers and filmmakers don’t want to use an SSD as a scratch disk as it degrades their performance they want to set an HDD as their user folder and scratch disk, leaving the SSD for the OS.

You have a Mac with a built-in Fusion Drive which you want to break apart, to use the SSD and HDD separately.

If any of them apply, then this could be a useful endeavour for you. Why would you want to do that?īefore we begin, let me outline a few of the use cases for which this guide is perfect. This will free up space on the boot drive and allow large media folders like Music, Movies, and Downloads to reside on a larger capacity drive. It is possible to move your entire user account onto another drive, completely separate from your macOS boot drive. If your user folder is filling up your SSD and you want to keep that high-speed storage for the operating system and applications, then this guide is for you.

For most users, by far the largest thing saved on their boot drive is the User folder, which contains their user account. If you only have a small SSD in your Mac or Hackintosh, then storage space can be at a premium.

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