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How can I verify that a DIY Fusion Drive is working as it should?
I installed an SSD in my 2011 Mac Mini to run alongside the stock 500GB HDD. After carefully reading through a number of tutorials, I used Terminal to merge them into a single "Fusion Drive". I cloned ...
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What happens when you remove (or lose) the SSD from a Fusion Drive?
After storing data on a Fusion Drive, is it possible to downgrade your Mac to use the hard drive (HDD) by just removing the solid state drive (SSD)?
In particular, I was wondering what happens when ...
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How can I manually force a file of a Fusion Drive to the SSD?
From what I understand, the implementation of the Fusion Drive is at the OS level (coreStorage). Yet, I want to know if it's possible to manually interfere in the management for a specific file or ...
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Where does a Fusion Drive store Time Machine local backups? Should I disable local backups?
Time Machine in OS X does store local backups (snapshots) on the local harddrive if you have Time Machine enabled.
Even if you backup regularly, the size of the local backups increases steadily. In a ...
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Can I make a DIY Fusion Drive?
I have a Mac Mini with two drives: a 256GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. From what I've read, the new Fusion Drive does all of it's magic in software, using the Core Storage APIs.
Can I get my setup to ...
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Will FileVault 2 wear out my SSD faster?
I'm considering using FileVault 2 when I upgrade to Lion. Though my understanding of it is weak, it seems as though it shouldn't really increase the number of reads or writes per disk operation ...
