You do realize what you've done is create a hybrid drive system where you have to manage what data is stored where, instead of letting the drive do that for you, right?

I work for a company that does whine about the cost of RHEL. Unfortunately, we are not talking about $100 licenses here (at that price we would just buy licenses for every server), we are talking about either a $349 per server per year subscription for the cheapest option on 2 socket or smaller servers, or a $1499 per server per year subscription for the larger servers. When the annual OS subscription cost for a server is higher than the annual hardware maintenance contract cost, it gets hard to justify.

"Apple reserves the service manuals to authorized service providers. To be authorized, they have to demonstrate their competence. If Apple doesn't act against anyone publishing their confidential service manuals in whole or in part without authorization, then they lose control of the service of Macs, which results in slipshod work performed by unqualified technicians." How many times do you ask the repair guy "Can I see your manual to verify that it's a valid copy?" If there's gonna be slipshod work, there's gonna be slipshod work regardless of who sees the manual. There are a million and ten "Fix your computer" businesses in NYC, for example. What's more appealing-having a college kid fix your Mac for 20 bucks an hour at your home, or schlepping the monster-Macs down to the Apple store/Tekserve? If you've got a laptop, I guess the answer's obvious- schlep away. But an iMac or a G5? Forget it. You practically have to hire movers.