Can I replace the HDD in a Fusion Drive?
I’m thinking about buying a refurbished iMac that has a 1 Tb fusion drive. Is it possible to replace the stock HDD with a 3 Tb drive?
View ArticleDoes my late 2012 iMac 21″ support fusion drives?
Back in June 2013 I bought an 21″ iMac with a standard 1TB HDD. By now OWC offers upgrades for these machines in the form of an SSD expansion board, which can be used to form a fusion drive with the...
View ArticleWhy does Apple recommend a 2TB FD over a 1TB Fusion Drive for iMacs with 32GB...
Under the ‘Choose Storage’ section on Apple’s iMac configuration page there is a blue link titled ‘How much storage is right for you? (Choose Storage) ‘. In that dialog it says: For the best...
View ArticleCan't delete Logical Volume Group on Fusion drive
I have a 2014 iMac Retina running OS X Yosemite and a 3TB Fusion drive. I am attempting to restore it from a Time Machine backup, but when I try to do so, I get the error message, “The disk can’t be...
View ArticleSuggestions: best config for SSD + HDD in customized MacBook Pro
I’m about to replace my SuperDrive with a 120 GB SSD that I have spare. This is going in a mid-2012 i5 MacBook Pro which has a SATA 500 GB drive in it. What would be the best config to use to maximise...
View ArticleReset MacMini Fusion Drive Volume
When install Windows10 with BootCamp,click new partition serial times,disk volume is disorder now. Can’t merge by BootCamp and Disk Utility. diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME...
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Fusion Drive lost space after bootcamp-fail. resizeStack throws an error....
I have a 2 TB Fusion Drive in a 5K iMac (Late 2015). Two days ago, I started the bootcamp assistant to create a partition for Windows 10. It got stuck (let it run 30 minutes), however, which forced me...
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Not able to restore my 3TB fusion drive late 2013 iMac
Last weekend my iMac started to act in a very strange way. While I was working, my Mac was very slow and the mouse and keyboard didn’t respond very well. So I decided to reboot because having two users...
View ArticleMounting the HDD part a DIY Hybrid Drive via USB
I have an iMac Late 2012 with what I thought was a 1TB Fusion Drive. Well, the other day I started getting read errors and after a little diagnostics, turns out the drive is failing. So, I bought a 1TB...
View ArticleProblem Installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp
I’ve recently created a DIY Fusion drive (240GB SSD & 1TB HDD) using the core storage commands on my mid 2012 MacBook Pro, I’ve restored from a time machine backup and everything works great. Now...
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