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For folks that use an external drive such as the miniStack as your boot drive to increase performance and space--what do you put on your internal drive? Is it space of last resort with just a backup boot partition? If actively used do you load apps or just use it for document files? Any strategies or experiences you would like to share would be appreciated.
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use it as a backup boot drive
keep all of your music on it
keep all of your photos on it
mini is essentially a laptop without a screen, millions of people use their laptops as the only mac they own, and the whole drive speed seems to be a very small issue -- and they use it for everything...up to Final Cut Pro
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I like the idea of a backup boot drive.
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SuperDuper cloned drive. Use the external as your daily use (faster) but clone it to the internal regularly. (I have an iMac (which I clone to a miniStack) but I have a few friends who have the Mac mini & miniStack combo, and this is what they do.)