A hard drive and an SSD installed/to install internally – Fusion is designed to work on internal drives only.So that’s the iMac (2009 or newer), MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) with Data Doubler, or MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer) again with Data Doubler, Mac mini (Early / Late 2009, Mid 2010 Server, and Mid 2011 or newer) with Data Doubler Kit or Data Doubler where applicable, or Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer). A Mac that you can install both a Solid State Drive and a Hard Disk Drive into.So, now that you know the difference, the question on everyone’s mind is… How Do I Create A True DIY Fusion Drive? Items Needed: The way a Core Storage volume works, it really makes people think they’ve created a true Fusion drive. And even then – what’s on the SSD continues to be read at full SSD speed, so it’s only the new data writes (where existing data on SSD is not being replaced) and subsequent reads of that HDD stored data that are slower due to being on the HDD. You don’t find out that it’s not truly ‘Fusion’ until the SSD portion has been completely filled up. Until now, we’ve only seen that software component in the 2012 Mac mini and 2012 iMac models that ship with their specific builds of 10.8.2 It needs the software to run the automated storage tiering to make it a true Fusion Drive. Most of the terminal command setups we’ve seen online are only initiating that Core Storage volume. Prior to the automation software, this type of data manipulation was done manually. This has actually been around since 2005 on larger scale networks where the software moves data across different disk types and RAID levels in order to balance space, cost and performance requirements of a server. What turns a Core Storage drive into a Fusion drive is the introduction of automated storage tiering to mix. Which makes the Fusion drive possible, but it isn’t the only aspect. The key factor to Core Storage is that it allows a single volume to span multiple physical disks. When Apple introduced Lion, they added a logical volume manager (Core Storage) to the OS. I’ve addressed a lot of this information in comments on the OWC Blog, but figure it would be a good idea to review and further explain what a Fusion drive actually is as opposed to a Core Storage volume. They are two similar, yet different drive configurations. There have been many tutorials on how to create a Core Storage volume that have been labeled as “how to create a Fusion drive”. Up until now, most of the reports you’ve read about creating your own DIY Fusion drive on a machine have been incomplete. The Profusion Of Fusion Confusionīut before we get to showing you exactly how to setup your own DIY Fusion drive, I’d like to dispel some mis-information that has been floating around the web. A little over a week ago, Apple released OS X version 10.8.3 and, with one small caveat, our hopes were fulfilled. We’ve been waiting and waiting for Apple to release the next version of OS X Mountain Lion in hopes that the next full version would have all the necessary components to setup a Fusion drive on any Mac capable of installing a hard drive and SSD together.
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