Symlink Interface folder or no?

[Otlecs]

That's really interesting, and I do understand how that would be a gain in your configuration, with all the installations on a single disk. I wasn't really thinking about that to be honest, and it's a very fair point.

For what it's worth though, it's a different situation when your installations are spread across multiple disks.

My setup consists of:

- 1TB RAID configured "normal" disk (drive C)
- OCZ Core 64 SSD (G)
- 300GB VelociRaptor (H)

I've tried lots of configurations and finally settled on:

- WoW main on H with no symlinks.
- WoW drone on G with symlinks as follows:

• Screenshots to WoW main
• Interface to WoW main
• WTF to a dedicated folder on C.

I didn't keep any of the imperical measurements I took during the various iterations (and there were many!), but this is the absolute fastest configuration for me.

The majority of the reads are from the Data directory, so you really wouldn't ever want that symlinked across drives, but you would absolutely want it linked if all installations are on a single drive.

The WTF folder seems to get lots of small writes, and SSD drives are particularly bad at that, so moving that to the RAID array whilst leaving the big data files on the SSD drive had a visible effect under some circumstances.

It's good to have the separate installs so you can assign multiple cores in keyclone

You don't need multiple installations to do this - just multiple KC commands invoking the same installation

I run 1x"WoW main" from drive H and 4x"WoW Drones" (DroneA, DroneB, etc Keyclone commands) from the same installation directory on drive G. I recall anecdotal evidence that this causes problems for some people, but I've never had a problem myself.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I link it and enable/disable addons per toon per account. Settings are saved in your WTF folder so you don't have issues overwriting any thing if that is your concern.

[lans83]

Thanks for all the input and advice here. I've decided to keep it setup the way Caspian suggested, which is how I already had it anyway. I haven't had any real problems with it this way, and since I know now where the settings are saved to for the addons, I know what to watch for when coping files and folders over from my main directory after each patch. I noticed after I'd copy over files from my main to slaves, that the seetings in my slave's addons would keep getting reset. Solution was to stop coping WTF files from main to slaves.