How to set full text catalog location SQL Server 2008/2012

I want to upgrade my SQL Server 2005 database to SQL Server 2012. In SQL Server 2005 you can set the location of the full text catalog when you create it. But in SQL Server 2012 (and in SQL Server 2008 from what I can deduce from online chatter) you cannot specify the location.

In SQL Server 2005 it was important to be able to set this location because, for performance reasons, we put the catalogs on separate disk. I understand that the full text engine has changed starting in SQL Server 2008 but I can't find information on where the catalogs get physically created and if putting them on a separate disk is still a best practice.

How can I set the catalog location in SQL Server 2008/2012? Or is the best practice of storing them on separate disks no longer necessary to follow?

Keith,

Full-text catalog had a complete architecture change in 2008 & above and that's why this option is removed and NOT necessary. Definitely NOT the answer you were looking for :-)

Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189520(v=SQL.100).aspx



Important
Beginning with SQL Server 2008, a full-text catalog is a virtual object and does not belong to any filegroup. A full-text catalog is a logical concept that refers to a group of full-text indexes.


ON FILEGROUP filegroup
Beginning with SQL Server 2008, this clause has no effect.
IN PATH 'rootpath'
Note
This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
Beginning with SQL Server 2008, this clause has no effect.

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