Good day I would like some advice. I am considering upgrading to a Solid State Drive for my MacBook Pro 17" Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz with 8GB of RAM. I use Microsoft Office, Adobe CS5 Applications (Illustrator, Fireworks, Photoshop and Catalyst) and Flash Builder 4.5 on a daily basis. On my Windows side I use Visual Studio 10 and SQL Server Management Studio in Windows 7, also on a daily basis. And I generally need both those operating sytems running at the same time. The question is: do I keep my Windows in a file-based VM, or do I partition the 480GB SDD into 2 portions of 240GB for each operating system? I do not really care about the functionality of snapshots and such that I would lose using a BootCamp VM. All I am concerned with is performance. Processing and disc performance on each of those systems. Would it be beneficial (performance wise) to run the VM off BootCamp (being non-expanding, disc-based, natively NTFS), or is Parallels designed in such a way to perform better off a file-based VM?
