I've had a bit of trouble with the system since installing the SSD. It would freeze on boot up from cold. I booted with the Snow Leopard install disk and went to disk utility and found the original, 120 gig HD was corrupt. Fix it. Then I found that the new boot SSD had bad permissions. Fix it. I don't know all the majik shell commands to move files in and out of a boot disk.
Eventually I decided to move the assigned ~/HOME directory back to boot/users/myname and keep photos and itunes libraries on the external. Documents and Downloads and Movies too. I cannot discover how to make the ~/Documents folder redirect to the second disk. So, I made an alias for the Documents folder on the second disk and moved that into boot/users/me. So, I see a Documents and 'Documents alias' folder. Sloppy.
I don't quite know why having $HOME on the second disk makes problems, or if it really was that. For now, I'm keeping $HOME on the boot.
It boots up screamingly fast from the SSD.
I was afraid of opening up this thing, what with my experience trying to solder inside my Amiga 3000 all of 20 years ago. It was no problem; Modern laptops are incredible.
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