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MacMost Now 779: Apple’s New Fusion Drive
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Hope this works better than a certain well known hybrid drive that I tried on my MBP a while ago.
Without OS support it kept changing its mind on what was the most used and proved slower than a conventional unit
I think with the new fusion drive we will see mixed results at a premium cost. IF the only parameter OS X uses to determine what lives on the SSD is 'access frequency' we will have issues. I use iTunes and music on my machine constantly. I have my ripped DVD collection for streaming that gets hit all the time. This doesn't mean I want my music or movies on expensive SSD. Personally, I would much rather have some very large video files or photos for editing (in FCP or PS) that I may reference a lot less. These would have a very noticeable load time if living on a slow 5400rpm drive. If allowed to manually chose I could simply copy those files to the SSD when ready to use them and then copy back when complete.
While certainly better than a very slow 5400rpm spinning disk I think it will be a mixed bag - apple Apple premiums.
I have the latest Macbbok Pro 15.4 inch and have dumped the optical drive and replaced it with my original 750 HDD that came with the machine. I have replaced the HHD with a 500Gb SSD. Can I combine the two drives and make them into a fusion drive?
I'm pretty sure you can't. You'd need the actual hardware that Apple is putting into the new machines. But with a 500GB SSD you can probably manage the files yourself (what goes on which drive) and get even better performance.
Yes . You can . Look video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_odnNpv-FQ
I don't see any evidence that this method creates a fusion drive. It is just about creating a single volume from two drives, one that happens to be an SSD. That is NOT what a Fusion drive is -- a Fusion drive is managing the files between the disks so the files accessed the most often are on the faster one. I don't think that with this method that would happen at all.
I wholeheartedly agree with James. While the Fusion Drive could help out a lot of people, power users would - and should - have command over these kind of operations, i.e. enabling them to make their own choice if wanted. Too much automatics can drive some of us wild. I still remember the harrowing stories about the relentless 1-hour kick-in rule of Time Machine, which could not be changed, that could create - admittedly rarely, but just once is sometimes all it needs to rip you hair out - havoc with massive video or data operations involving swapping gigabytes of material to and fro, ending up with a stuttering Time Machine and the devout wish to have chosen another career.