one vs multiple wow folders

[Raigirin]

I have 5 wow folders and my process on patch day is pretty much similar to Shaeman's.
So far this have worked well for me, well Dalaran is lag city for me, but I can even feel it soloing.

[Gadzooks]

I run 5 accounts on one 24" iMac, and make 4 symbolic link folders, and only have to "manage" one folder - makes patch day a breeze. It's pretty easy to do, honestly, and saves a ton of HD space.

[Svpernova09]

I run 1 wow folder off a 1 tb 7200rpm 32mb Cache drive. Before I used ISBoxer and virtualized config.WTF, I was using keyclone with multiple folders. I see a noticeable increase in performance in using 1 folder instead of multiple.

[Zzyzxx71]

I run 1 wow folder off a 1 tb 7200rpm 32mb Cache drive. Before I used ISBoxer and virtualized config.WTF, I was using keyclone with multiple folders. I see a noticeable increase in performance in using 1 folder instead of multiple.

This.

I only use 2 folders, and run both off of a 64gb SSD. The main folder is for my main (more addons, etc), the second folder is all the slaves. Sometimes I think the slaves load up TOO fast.

[hatesquared]

Thanks all for the reply. I'm going to try the single directory and see if I have any poor performance if so, I'll read up on the MKLINK command, at first glance I need to understand the pointers, etc. better.

Thanks again for the help.

-hate