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apply bootcamp with a very large partition (minimal for OS X) from factory condition OS X minimally configure the system I appreciate you want to use the SD slot and avoid the need for an external drive, but many of them are very small fomr factor and bus powered these days. However, as you want, it might be useful to be able to boot the MBA into Windows but I dont want to have the Bootcamp partition wasting space on the MBA. The SSD would eliminate any performance concerns. There are now some reasonably priced USB 3 & Thunderbolt disks and I am very tempted by the Lacie Rugged 256gb SSD USB 3 ( ). The testing VM's could now reside permanently on the external USB 3 drive as I have established this is faster than my current deployment. I will probably locate the smaller production VM's on the main SSD drive. Production VM's configured for client corporate domain work - these tend to be smaller in size as SQL databases are held on the corporate servers
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Windows VM's for testing SQL Server stuff, usually 75gb plus in size So anyway, soon I will just have the internal 512gb SSD on the MBA. Obviously the VM's would be best located on the main SSD drive, but most of them are too big to be resident there for long.
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I currently have the VM's on the internal 750gb HD, so clearly the SATA2 pipe to the DVD bay is the problem. Thats on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 320gb drive and a G-Tech Gdrive Mini 1tb 7200rpm. I use a lot of Windows Fusion VM's and after doing some testing I have discovered that I get faster read and write speeds when the VM is on an external drive connected via USB 3. I have a new MBA (i7 2ghz, 8gb RAM, 512GB SSD) arriving soon, having decided to downgrade (cpu speed, disk storage & RAM) from my MBP (15", 16gb RAM, 256gb SSD main drive & 750gb HD in DVD Bay).