Questions tagged [fusion-drive]
Apple's branding of a tiered storage solution where an SSD and HDD are combined using core storage to appear as one fast and spacious drive.
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Windows 10 Boot Camp on Mac mini Fusion Drive is running very slow. How to replace HDD / upgrade disk to SSD without reinstalling OS?
Hardware:
- Mac mini (late 2014)
- Core-i5
- 8GB
Logical drive:
- Fusion Drive 1,15TB
Physical drives:
- 128GB PCIe
- 1000GB HDD
Partitions and systems:
- 250GB HFS+ macOS High Sierra
- 850GB NTFS ...
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Faster or Bigger? [duplicate]
I had my question put 'on hold' because someone deemed it opinion oriented, so I'll rephrase it - For video editing, is it better to have a faster hard drive or a larger one? I hope to learn editing ...
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how to prepare two SSDs after upgrade (merge to fusion drive or not, terminal commands)
I just upgraded the CPU of my 2015 27" Retina iMac and while I was in there I took out the 1TB HDD and replaced it with a 512GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Now I'm ready to set it all up, but I'm not sure ...
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Mac Pro 5.1 (mid 2012 ) Fusion Drive (2 SSDs and 1 HDD)
I have 2 SSDs 160GB each and a 4TB Disk (all SATA) I was thinking to put them in Fusion Drive setup, will it work? how it will work?
which setup is recommended if possible? any speed benefits?
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Can I use a Seagate SSHD in my iMac and if so, how do I load OSX (High Sierra) onto it
I'm looking to upgrade my iMac 14.2 (late 2013) by swapping out the existing HDD with a Seagate SSHD Hybrid drive, along with adding another 8Gb memory. I've done a similar upgrade on my daughter's ...
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How to build/format macOS fusion drive from scratch, which will allow macOS High Sierra Install?
Background/Context:
Friday I picked up a USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet dongle for my wife’s late 2013 MacBook Pro, so the next time I had to debug Comcast ISP Service I could schlep that instead of my ...
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Can't boot back into macOS after extending my Fusion Drive in Linux
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to boot macOS on my iMac after an extrememly shitty attempt at cleaning up my Fusion Drive. Here's what I've done leading up to this point:
Installed rEFInd, ...
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Rescue Fusion Drive
Local Apple support suggested me to change the 2 TB Seagate Fusion drive with a 2 TB SSD to increase speed in my 27" Retina iMac with macOS Sierra installed.
I had a full backup done with Carbon Copy ...
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Is it possible to have an Apple Genius replace my Fusion drive with an SSD in my iMac?
Can I take my iMac to an Apple store and have the Geniuses replace its Fusion drive with a pure SSD?
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How to access a fusion drive from ubuntu linux by mounting apple core storage
my iMac with 3TB fusion drive won't boot anymore. even when booting to recovery it crashes with kernel panic. the stack trace says
com.apple.driver.Corestorage
dependency com.apple.iokit....
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Apple_Boot “Boot OS X” partition and Fusion Drive
I recently had an 10.13.4 update problem and while trying to fix it I ended up "corrupting" completely my "Boot OS X" partition files.
while my Fusion drive partition was updated correctly to 10.13.4, ...
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macOS El Captain missing disk space on Fusion drive on iMac, missing contents for GPT partition
I was formatting my Fusion drive of 3 TB and unfortunately it seems 1 TB is missing. I tried to search the answer on this forum and found some relevant answers here but my situation is bit different ...
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I Have a problematic SSD
I didn't know how to give this question a better title since I have no idea what happened to my SSD.
I was using this SSD in my MacBook Pro set up as a DIY fusion drive with the MBP original HD.
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Fusion drive only shows the SSD partition
Ok, I am at my wit's end. Last week after 10.13.3 failed to install twice, my late 2014 5K Retina iMac became painfully slow. Eventually it just bricked. I tried to restore from Time Capsule over ...
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Is encrypting then deleting the same as securely erasing?
So, recent versions of macOS no longer offer the option to Empty Trash Securely. From what I am reading here and here it seems the general consensus is that it is now best to encrypt files and then ...
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Re-Merge El Capitan Recovery with Original Mac OS
Due to recent partitioning mistakes I was unable to boot up my Mac OSX or my Bootcamp on my Mac since. As a last resort I went to recovery mode and downloaded a new El Capitan OS.
Unfortunately this ...
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How to upgrade to 10.13.3 with fusion drive on apfs
I installed High Sierra via the app store, the regular way. In the process the fusion drive of my mac mini was converted to apfs.
I am still on 10.13.1, and wondered, why available upgrades did not ...
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How can I get my Fusion Drive switched out for an SSD in my iMac while retaining my Apple care warranty?
Title says it all. Starting to regret the Fusion Drive. But don’t want to lose my warranties.
Location: West Sussex, Chichester UK.
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How to delete all partitions from iMac without an OS installed and rebuild a fusion drive without UUID
a friend of mine bought a second hand iMac and they erased sort of everything from the iMac before it was given to him. There is no OS installed and it's not possible to instal a new version from OSX ...
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iMac 27 Fusion Drive restore from SSD
How can I restore an image (dmg) of my MacBook's 512 GB SSD (APFS encrypted) onto a 1 TB Fusion Drive using Disk Utility?
I am a bit confused with the Fusion Drive. Can I make it pure HDD and just do ...
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Salvage data from fusion drive
I have a 2015 iMac 27 inch that had a fusion drive. I recently replaced the fusion drive with a SSD drive.
It seems that my iMac had two storages. One is an 128GB SSD drive connected via PCI and a ...
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Couldn't upgrade to HS on iMac fusion drive
I downloaded the OS HS from apple store and during installation I got stuck on the following error:
"The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged"
I've read ...
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I messed up my Fusion Drive on my 1TB Retina 5k iMac (Bootcamp, GPT FUBAR)
After a failed Windows installation, where I foolishly used the Windows installer to delete and create new partitions, my Fusion Drive lost a ton of space.
An attempt to rebuild the drive using ...
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Moving just MacOS from HDD to SSD
I have an iMac with a fusion drive. A while back, the drive separated into two seperate drives, with one OS on both the SSD and HDD each. The Apple Technician was unable to help me to join them again ...
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Mac OS High Sierra won't boot by itself
a month or so ago I formatted my fusion drive on my iMac 5k late 2014 (128 GB + 1 TB). Before the formatting, the drive was split into two partitions, so I had to wipe out everything and recreate the ...
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Reusing iMac Fusion Drive as external drive
The logic board of my iMac 27" Retina broke and I find it impossible to get a new one in the country where I'm living in.
I wonder if it's possible to access the data in the Fusion hard drive,
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How to reformat a HDD to show the proper size?
Long story short. On my iMac I had a Fusion Drive: 250GB SSD + 750GB HDD.
The SSD failed totally, is completely dead. HDD seems to be OK. I replaced the SSD and erased the HDD.
The HDD seems to be ...
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iMacs Fusion Drive: only SSD listed, no HDD
I had some problems with a Mac's Fusion Drive. I erased the first MB of the SDD (Terminal in recovery mode). After that I partitioned the SDD again (with GUID). That works. But the HDD is now missing. ...
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How do I consolidate all my partitions into one partition usable for Bootcamp?
I've been having an issue with Bootcamp recently after I deleted my Windows disk due to a driver issue that was unfixable. I figured I would just do a fresh install of Windows, but little to my ...
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FileVault 2 encrypted Fusion Drive on iMac doesn't boot anymore
I bought a 2017 iMac, migrated the contents of my 2012 iMac (so I have my data! ) and I wanted to erase the 2012 iMac it replaces using Disk Utility in Recovery Mode.
I had hoped this would be a ...
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Hard Drive I replaced still showing up in Disk Utility and as a Startup Disk
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running macOS Sierra (10.12.6). It came with a 1TB fusion drive. I recently removed that drive to replace it with a 960GB SSD. All is working fine except for two issues.
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Unable to unpartition main hard drive [duplicate]
I have a late 2013 27 inch iMac with a 3 TB Fusion Drive with macOS Sierra installed.
I partitioned my drive right down the middle, so 1.5 TB on either side.
When I went into Disk Utility mode to ...
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How to recover lost space on a Fusion drive
I have attempted to add an ordinary partition with Disk Utility on my fairly recent iMac Mac16,2 under Sierra 10.12.10 and the process did not complete. I have now a shrunk disk capacity that I would ...
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3 TB Fusion Drive missing space after unsuccessful Windows installation via Bootcamp
I have been trying to install Windows via Bootcamp on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017, 3 TB Fusion Drive; Mac OS 10.12.6) and messed up. Here are the steps taken so far:
Ran Bootcamp and ...
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Is there a way to rescue the contents of this messed up Fusion Drive?
I got a Mac in to support with a weird problem with a Fusion Drive. Basically it looks like this
admins-iMac:~ admin$ diskutil corestorage list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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Data Recovery options for iMac late 2013 1 TB Fusion Drive
My friend's iMac crashed. He took it to an Apple Store and they said the 1 TB HDD was failing. They got him to boot off an external and told him to go home back his stuff up and they can order and ...
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Does MacOS Support a Snapshot-Style Filesystem?
I would like to perform daily snapshots that I can revert to if someone:
downloads Malware
installs buggy software
etc.
Does such a thing exist? Is there a roadmap for it?
I have a Fusion drive ...
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Replaced HDD in fusion drive and now cannot partition or run bootcamp [duplicate]
I sent my iMac 5k with 1TB fusion drive to get it fixed and have somebody replace the internal HDD with a 500GB SSD. They were able to restore the fusion capacity with the drives; however, now when I ...
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Replace Hard Drive in iMac with Fusion
We have a Late 2012 iMac in the shop that needs the 3TB hard drive replaced. Turns out this model has a Fusion drive with an SSD that is on the backside of the logic board.
The drive has been swapped ...
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How can I fix or restore my 3TB Fusion Drive macOS install after Boot Camp partitioning error?
What I have:
- 27" 2012 Mac with 3TB Fusion Drive
- 3.4 GHz Core i7 (3770) ("Ivy Bridge") processor
- 24 GB RAM
I was trying to set it up with a Boot Camp partition for Windows 10. The story so ...
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Disk Utility Partitions Wrong Part of Fusion Drive
I have a question about my iMac 2015 Fusion Drive. I replaced my spindle with a SATA SSD 512gb drive. Here are the commands I used from an online instruction set to remake the Fusion Drive:
diskutil ...
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Merge existing HDD and SSD into Fusion drive
Some time ago I split the Fusion Drive into 2 parts, SSD and HDD accordingly. Now I decided to return to fusion drive, but I have some data that I would like to keep.
Is it possible to merge drives ...
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What should I do about a Mac Mini whose fusion drive is getting steadily slower and slower?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini (running OS/X 10.11.6) with an Apple-provided internal 1TB fusion drive that appears to be suffering from some kind of performance problem -- it seems to be getting slower and ...
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Can CCC clone a Fusion drive and restore it to a new SSD?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1TB Fusion drive. The noise of the spinning disk has been increasing lately and I want to replace it with a Crucial MX300 1TB SSD.
Carbon Copy Cloner makes a complete ...
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Swap Fusion Drive for SSD
I want to swap my Fusion Drive for a 1 TB SSD, to gain more speed loading programs. Do I have to delete (uninstall) the Fusion Drive first or can I just take out the HD and install the SSD and then ...
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iMac disk partion FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF and fusion drive unlinked
I was trying to uninstall linux mint and was trying to restore the partitions back to one. Somehow I ended with the one of the partition labeled FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF.
This are the ...
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Cannot boot from usb
Recently I replaced the optical drive to SSD to make a fusion drive in my Macbook Pro 13 inch 2012. The hardware installation was successful and it is recognized in Disk Utility. I made a Sierra ...
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How do I re-fuse an unfused Fusion Drive, ideally without formatting?
I have a 5k iMac with a Fusion Drive. I had trouble with macOS, so I reinstalled it, and restored from a Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant.
After that, the system has been very slow, and ...
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I can t find my internal HDD drive (part of fusion drive) on iMac 27 late 2012
Hello as I wrote on the title I have an issue with my fusion drive .. After entering internet recovery mode I only see the SSD ... Here is the photo also from my diskutil list and diskutil cs list :
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Fusion Drive - Lost space when resizing
I'm having trouble with my Fusion Drive. I was trying to reclaim a 100gb partition that I used BootCamp for. I was unable to delete the BootCamp partition using the Assistant, so I used the Utility ...
