Finally upgraded past Snow leopard and ...

[Tommie Milwaukee]

As mentioned in my previous post :

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1548538

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion on a new 2011 Quad Core i7 Mini Server with 8gb of ram & 2 7200rpm hard drives.

Although so far I'm happy with the improvement in video encoding, the whole system seems really sluggish ... Especially opening Apps takes a long time compared to my Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz Mini.

Is this normal for Mountain Lion? Should I spring for an SSD?

[mattkime]

Is spotlight re-indexing?

Something must be running. Take a look at activity monitor.

[Tommie Milwaukee]

Neither. Spotlight is not indexing & Activity Monitor shows nothing unusual. It just seems like it's really slow accessing the hard drive. Bad drive, perhaps? I don't hear any clicking or noise.

[Black]

I performance is at all important to you you should be booting from an SSD either way.
Having my files split "manually" has worked fine for me for a year, but Larry mentioned on another thread that OWC is working on it's own version of a "fusion" application (or would that be a hack?)

[Article Accelerator]

Tommie Milwaukee wrote:
As mentioned in my previous post :

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1548538

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion on a new 2011 Quad Core i7 Mini Server with 8gb of ram & 2 7200rpm hard drives.

Although so far I'm happy with the improvement in video encoding, the whole system seems really sluggish ... Especially opening Apps takes a long time compared to my Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz Mini.

Is this normal for Mountain Lion?

No.

Should I spring for an SSD?

Maybe, but first I suggest doing a nuke'n'pave. If you "migrated," you may have brought over a lot of stuff that constipates Mountain Lion.

[mattkime]

I'd try booting from an external drive. try booting from the internal drive but mount it externally.

pretty much try any combo of things and see if you can isolate what is weird. That machine shouldn't be slow.

[MrNoBody]

Article Accelerator - wrote:
If you "migrated," you may have brought over a lot of stuff that constipates Mountain Lion.

Agreed, after reading "opening Apps takes a long time" I thought 'oh no, he
used Migration Assistant to move apps'.

[Tommie Milwaukee]

Thanks, all. I'm gonna do the nuke & pave & see what a clean install will do.