Meanwhile, Viv Collins has been thinking: I have a Mid 2011 Mac Mini.and I cannot wait to try this out.with this setup, the OS can choose where to put everything, which is truly ideal. The Fusion drive is a SSD & a HDD.and at the OS level, it is picking and choosing where to store programs / data.if you also own a Mac, and own a SSD & HDD attached to that Mac, you can also have a 'Fusion' drive (assuming Apple doesn't shut down these command line hacks). The Fusion drive is software based, it is not hardware. You can use the disk that core storage creates and use ZFS on it. So I wonder if it’s possible to use.ZFS -) As stated before, I would never trust Data onto HFS+. wondered if it might be in fact be block oriented.the first Megabyte was read from the SSD. I was using plain old 10.8.2, nothing special. The SSD is a old Vertex2 so nothing Apple specific. MOREįusion drive uses a core storage VolumeGroup let’s try to create our own Fusion drive.after giving it some time it actually did transfer the data to. If a Core Storage volume contains an HDD and an SSD, Fusion Drive appears to be automatically activated. It appears that Fusion Drive detects the SSD-ishness of a drive. it work on older Macs, or only newer.Macs with Apple-provided SSDs?īased on findings, Fusion Drive is indeed a base operating system feature, either contained within Core Storage or built into OS X 10.8.x.

MOREįusion Drive marries a solid-state disk and a spinning hard disk drive.relying on the speed of the SSD to accelerate all writes and reads on the most often-used and the size of the HDD to hold.less often-referenced. Fusion Drive-like behavior kicked in without further configuration. involves using a command-line disk utility to merge two physical storage devices into a single volume.

However, an enterprising Mac user seems to have created his own Fusion Drive using an older Mac outfitted with an SSD. Fusion Drive seemed to involve the actual copying of frequently-used files from the HDD to the SSD portion of the drive to enhance performance. last week, announced Fusion Drive, which appeared to be similar to hybrid drives.allow users to reap the benefits of an SSD while having the storage capacity of a standard HDD.

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