If SQL 2008 and above, the FTS catalogs are part of the database.
If you want to store the tables with FTS indexes and the associated FTS catalog of a separate disk array from the rest of the database, then create a new Filegroup that has a file on your disk array. After you have done this, do ALTER TABLE statements to move the affected tables and indexs to the new filegroup.
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