Home/ Questions/Q 7772069
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-01T16:48:09+00:00

I have a new 256 gig SSD drive which replaced my MacBook Pro’s CD

  • 0

I have a new 256 gig SSD drive which replaced my MacBook Pro’s CD drive.

The goal is to make MonoDevelop + MonoTouch app development the fastest possible. How can I get MonoDevelop + MonoTouch + (not sure what else, xcode perhaps?) moved to the SSD drive to make developing the fast. This is the only task the computer has.

The main OS is on a standard drive. I have 8 gigs ram and an i5 so the SSD was the only hardware I think needed to enhance the IDE experience.

This is a software question as it has to do with configuring the IDE exclusively.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    @sblom covers the major pieces. You also need to be aware that:

    • a lot of temporary files gets created (mostly in \var\tmp) by the compilers;
    • a lot of system libraries will also be loaded;

    For both cases the comment (from Sebastian Flückiger) hits the nail. You’ll get the best performance if your main drive is the SSD drive and keep, les often used, data on your existing hard drive.

    That’s likely a bigger change that you anticipated. OTOH it also removes the potential issues mentioned by @sblom like updating Xcode (wrt symlinks) and keeping both MonoTouch and MonoDevelop in their default directories (which can be useful when creating/sharing scripts).

    • 0